William George Jordan Quotes
No good act performed in the world ever dies. Science tells us that no atom of matter can ever be destroyed, that no force once started ever ends; it merely passes through a multiplicity of ever-changing phases. Every good deed done to others is a great force that starts an unending pulsation through time and eternity. We may not know it, we may never hear a word of gratitude or recognition, but it will all come back to us in some form as naturally, as perfectly, as inevitably, . . . as echo answers to sound.
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I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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I loved Riot Grrl. Not only was it a punk rock revolution, but it meant you could get dressed for a night out for less than two pounds!
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There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.
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O Light Invisible, we praise Thee! Too bright for mortal vision.
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Please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of very early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).
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The air in a man's lungs 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms, so that sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has ever lived - Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses.
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I spent 10 years in New York doing theater.
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We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us.
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My greatest work comes in the community.
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Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
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They're playin our song Gene!
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Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be.
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One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.
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Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril
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How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?
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The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
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There is a force of exultation, a celebration of luck, when a writer finds himself a witness to the early morning of a culture that is defining itself, branch by branch, leaf by leaf, in that self-defining dawn, which is why, especially at the edge of the sea, it is good to make a ritual of the sunrise.
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
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Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency. . .
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No good act performed in the world ever dies. Science tells us that no atom of matter can ever be destroyed, that no force once started ever ends; it merely passes through a multiplicity of ever-changing phases. Every good deed done to others is a great force that starts an unending pulsation through time and eternity. We may not know it, we may never hear a word of gratitude or recognition, but it will all come back to us in some form as naturally, as perfectly, as inevitably, . . . as echo answers to sound.
