Richard Paul Evans Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.
-
I'm hardly macho. I present myself as very unnoticeable.
-
I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.
-
I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
-
This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.
-
I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my thing. I sit at home with my glass of wine and watch hours of reality TV. I have a million shows on my TiVo.
-
Christians are being systematically exterminated.
-
I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
-
Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
-
It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.
-
We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
-
I have never thought where I will go, or forced any targets on myself.
-
Another Visitor: How did you manage, Monsieur Degas, when you painted that plein air called 'Le Plage', the one Monsieur Rouart has? Degas: It was quite simple. I spread my flannel vest on the floor of the studio, and had the model sit on it. You see, the air you breathe in a picture is not necessarily the same as the air out of doors.
-
There's much talk about how there can't be democracy in a region that has problems of illiteracy and poverty. But I bring a different idea to the table when I say, 'Guys, I come from India. I'm more optimistic coming from where I'm coming.'
-
I'm leaving the game of hockey with nothing but great memories.
-
With super PACs, we've seen voter turnout go up; interest in elections rise; and the number of competitive races increase. The campaigns of 2010 and 2012 have been more issue-oriented than their predecessors, not less.
-
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
-
'Sara' was the first film project I worked on as an actress; it's a short film.
-
In our show you have to pay attention and know what happened before. I think it's very intelligent entertainment. It makes demands of viewers that a lot of shows don't.
-
I've evolved, but I'm the same dude, I'm just in a different place. We all change, we all grow. I shouldn't be in the same place that I was 30 years ago; I should be more intelligent, you know.
-
From the very first, it has been the educated and intelligent of the Negro people that have led and elevated the mass, and the sole obstacles that nullified and retarded their efforts were slavery and race prejudice; for what is slavery but the legalized survival of the unfit and the nullification of the work of natural internal leadership?
-
Free passion is radiation without a radiator, a fluid, pervasive warmth that flows effortlessly. It is not destructive because it is a balanced state of being and highly intelligent. Self-consciousness inhibits this intelligent, balanced state of being. By opening, by dropping our self-conscious grasping, we see not only the surface of an object, but we see the whole way through.
-
If art can be at the service of anything, it's about letting us see a state of grace for those people who rarely get to be able to be seen that way.
-
The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers.
