Cornelius Plantinga Quotes

The written word Should be clean as bone, Clear as light, Firm as stone. Two words are not As good as one.

Cornelius Plantinga

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• Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Success
  • Health
  • Grow

• I was a commercial girl. In drama school, I was a mediocre model occasionally to pick up some extra cash, and because clearly I'm not six feet tall, and I had baby weight, I would mainly just would do promotional stuff.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Up
  • School
  • Girl

• So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Age
  • Me
  • Mom

• Guys in slavery sang praises to the Lord to deliver them from bondage.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Slavery
  • Lord
  • Bondage

• When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Love
  • For Him
  • Comfort

• Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Real
  • Dream
  • Reality

• With a male-centric show, the women are usually very two-dimensional.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Women
  • Show
  • Very

• Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.

  

  Vince Staples
  • Values
  • Your
  • Morals

• My daughter wants to do yoga with me and wants to be in the theater thing, and I can't tell her, 'Don't be an actress.' My son loves guitar and loves to be in a band and wants his iTunes downloaded with all this old-school hip-hop so he understands where hip-hop came from.

  

  Laura Dern
  • School
  • Band
  • Son

• When you're a fighter, and you're not doing good in your work, that happens - you lost the fight.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Good
  • Work
  • Lost

• Death by hanging...I deserved it and I expected it, as I've always told you. I am glad that I have had the chance to defend myself and to think things over in the last few months.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Death

• I think as long as you're being creative and finding your own work interesting, that's all that matters.

  

  Kathleen Anne Brien
  • Work
  • Long
  • Interesting

• If our opinions rest upon solid ground, those who attack them do not make us angry, but themselves ridiculous.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Rest
  • Angry

• i'm in a muddle about a lot of things -- i've just discovered that i've a mind, and i'm starting to read" "read what?" "everything. i have to pick and choose, of course, but mostly things that make me think.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Starting

• Travel, which had once charmed him, seemed, at length, unendurable, a business of color without substance, a phantom chase after his own dream's shadow.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Business
  • Dream
  • Travel

• Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.

  

  Anne Carson
  • World
  • Different
  • Hopeful

• I love what Chris & Katy are bringing to the table with Coal Train Railroad. It makes ME feel like a kid again! I think children of all ages will love the humor, silliness and the catchy, cool, and crazy music that reminds us all that music should be fun to listen to. I’m honored (and slightly tickled) to be part of this wonderful project. Thanks!

  

  Jeff Coffin Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Kids

• He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Words
  • Bones
  • Fill

• A living gale is better than a dead calm.

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Calm
  • Gale

• I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Work
  • May
  • Advice

• The written word Should be clean as bone, Clear as light, Firm as stone. Two words are not As good as one.

  

  Cornelius Plantinga
  • Word
  • Written
  • Clear