Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth.
Quotes to Explore
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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So many of us have friends or family who have battled cancer, and we know how important it is to find a cure.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
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Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.
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I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.
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He bade me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters.
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Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.
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We can never say it often or loudly enough: Immigrants and refugees revitalize and renew America.
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This feeling of not belonging to the same sensation which grips you in a dream, you find yourself walking through an unfamiliar district. On waking you realize, little by little, that the pattern of its streets had overlaid with the one with which, in day time, you are familiar.
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The Seventies theory explosion i.e., Literary theory, deconstruction, etc. was a panic reaction by headlocked pedants unable to cope with the emotional and sensory flux of the Sixties. It was a desperate search for new authority, new dogma.
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Crops failed; wealth took a flight; house, treasure, land, Slipped from my hold-thus plenty comes and goes.One friend I had, but he too loosed his hand (Or was it I?) the year I met with Rose.
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Sooner or later, all games become serious.
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Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound. I could never have borne it. So take the thing that happened, hide it, stick it in the ground. Whisk the lamps away... Night.
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How are we to reconcile our supreme duty towards memory with the need to forget that is essential to life? No generation has had to confront this paradox with such urgency. The survivors wanted to communicate everything to the living: the victim's solitude and sorrow, the tears of mothers driven to madness, the prayers of the doomed beneath a fiery sky.
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I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.
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Streetcar is the most wonderful, wonderful play.
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Internet fame is like regular fame only without all the annoying 'money' and 'power.'
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Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth.
