William Sloane Coffin Quotes
Socrates had it wrong; it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.
Quotes to Explore
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Do you know what a showmance is? It is like being at a summer camp when you're a teenager. You spend summertime away from your home. When you spend three months very closely with someone at a particular place, it is like a summer love. You have no choice but to get involved with that person.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.
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Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
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In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.
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As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.
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On the tour we get a case of beer on the bus every day from Ozzfest.
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You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same process. You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.
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I was always able to get money, but now it's a little bit more money, and I manage the same way. I just want to see my family do better.
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The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
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Parallel to our vast strides in technology, there is a dangerous rise in unemployment, foreclosures, and degrading education. Millions of people are stricken with hopelessness and strife. Sadly, in the name of progress we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.
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You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false.
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The bones of the Dead will be seen to govern the fortunes of him who moves them.
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Both the aphorism and the poem channel man’s wild impulse to escape the systems another part of him has so carefully constructed.
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When I am having my picture taken, I channel Beyonce. In the studio, my inspiration is Adele.
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Mark Grotjahn's large new paintings abound with torrents of ropy impasto, laid down in thickets, cascading waves, and bundles that swell, braid around, or overlap one another.
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As some people say, we're already in a Singularity relative to ancient Grecians, inasmuch as they couldn't understand our world at all... and I think it's true in the opposite direction, too.
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Being a fiction writer is really like being an actor, because if you're going to write convincingly it has to sound right and play right. The only way that works is to emotionally and technically act out and see the scene you're in. There's no better job in the world, because when I sit down at that computer I'm the world's best forensics expert, if that's what I'm writing about that day. Or I'm some crazed psycho running down a dark alley. Or I'm a gorgeous woman looking to find a man that night. Whatever! But I'm all of those things, every day. How can you beat that?
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My kids know the importance of being active – and that's why teaming up with the USTA was such an organic fit for me. They are making strives to get families outside – and using tennis as a way to get kids to stay active.
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The less somebody knows and understand himself the less great he is, however great may be his talent. For this reason our scientists are not great.
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The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.
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Socrates had it wrong; it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.
