William Lilly Quotes

I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments.

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• The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • May
  • Strong
  • Church

• I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Going
  • Been
  • Where

• I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Different
  • Remember

• The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Great
  • Business
  • Lesson

• I'm very wary of news on television.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Television
  • Very
  • News

• I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Age

• I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Long
  • Want
  • Body

• More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Me
  • Wish
  • Manager

• After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Movie
  • Watch
  • Ghosts

• I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • Community
  • Problems

• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • You
  • Waiting

• When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.

  

  Jack Miller
  • Life
  • School
  • Education

• With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Up
  • Character
  • Parents

• I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Devil

• If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Reason
  • Always
  • Follow

• Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Spirit
  • Revolution
  • Process

• I really believe that being flexible and grateful contributes a lot to your happiness, which contributes to your health and contributes to your look.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Believe
  • Health

• We believe we are the consumers, but we are the consumed.

  

  Bryant H. McGill
  • Believe

• I started out in the 'Cure' reflecting things that I thought were important, and it's reached a point where it takes over and becomes the thing that is important.

  

  Robert Smith The Cure
  • Important

• Pilates is my favorite core strengthener. I do it three or four times a week. With all the strengthening and lengthening, it's like ballet. Plus, you get to do it lying down!

  

  Emily VanCamp
  • Ballet

• The redwood is the glory of the Coast Range. It extends along the western slope, in a nearly continuous belt about ten miles wide, from beyond the Oregon boundary to the south of Santa Cruz, a distance of nearly four hundred miles, and in massive, sustained grandeur and closeness of growth surpasses all the other timber woods of the world.

  

  John Muir
  • World
  • Growth
  • Distance

• I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments.

  

  William Lilly
  • Believe
  • Divine
  • Instruments