G. H. Pember Quotes
For when one has set his heart upon an idea—which is, perhaps, nothing but the creation of his own fancy, as unsubstantial as the castle of a dream—his powers are thenceforth used for the single purpose of making the picture of his imagination stand out as vividly and as like reality as possible.
Quotes to Explore
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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If you knew you could change your lifestyle and diet and avoid heart disease and other things, you should do it.
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Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful.
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
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I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.
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'Forrest Gump' is filled full of moments where your heart just cheers.
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Only a fortunate few seek the Beloved. Only a blessed few seek to enter the shrine of the heart.
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Mike Campbell and Don Henley and I wrote 'The Heart of the Matter,' which was a huge hit for Don.
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Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.
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There's so many other things I want to do. I don't want to do them to be different or just for a challenge, but because my heart and soul tell me to.
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My heart is closer to acting than singing. It's always been that way.
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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
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I've been a big fan of Joe Hill ever since his first novel, 'Heart-Shaped Box.'
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.
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I remember the 1950s. It seemed as if prosperity was the be all and end all. The idea was that if you had enough material goods, everything would be all right.
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You don't change people's hearts by making them suffer. You harm yourself as well as them.
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Whenever you give someone a present or sing a holiday song, you're helping Santa Claus. To me, that's what Christmas is all about. Helping Santa Claus!
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When you are a certain age or when you have lost certain things and people, Aimee’s crippling grief will make a terrible poisoned dark sense.
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The critic does not pass judgment on the work; rather, art itself passes judgment, either by taking up the work in the medium of criticism or by rejecting it and thereby appraising it as beneath all criticism.
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For when one has set his heart upon an idea—which is, perhaps, nothing but the creation of his own fancy, as unsubstantial as the castle of a dream—his powers are thenceforth used for the single purpose of making the picture of his imagination stand out as vividly and as like reality as possible.
