Wendy Beckett (Sister Wendy) Quotes

All great art is a visual form of prayer.

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• Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • May
  • Reality
  • Professional

• If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • History
  • Hate

• Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • World
  • System
  • Driver

• Working on 'Outlander' has been a delight, it really has. I had kind of forgotten what Scotland was like, and I'd turned into a bit of a Londoner.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Kind
  • Working
  • Forgotten

• Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys. But I've been able to do different things.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Different
  • Bad
  • Guy

• As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • People
  • Life
  • Death

• Acting probably saved my life. It gave me a home and a safe place to let out all of my emotions and have it be okay.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Life
  • Home
  • My Life

• Russell T. Davies Torchwood Everything Changes

  

  Rain

• God, our Father, has given us the life and the art of healing to protect and maintain it.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Life
  • God
  • Art

• Marx was the greatest of all theorists of socialism.

  

  Benito Mussolini

• 'They’re just ordinary people,' Nancy said. 'You can’t expect too much of them.'

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • People

• Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wingsAnd some are treasured for their markings –They cause the eyes to meltOr the body to shriek without pain.

  

  Craig Raine
  • Eyes
  • Pain

• I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will.

  

  Eileen Myles

• This stand wasn't because I feel like I'm being put down in any kind of way. This is because I'm seeing things happen to people that don't have a voice: people that don't have a platform to talk and have their voices heard and affect change. So I'm in the position where I can do that, and I'm going to do that for people that can't.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • People

• Come on, when does it come to the point where your name can't come up in trade talks? Willie Mays got traded. Pedro Martinez got traded. So what? That's part of the game.

  

  Eric Davis
  • Up
  • Game

• In high school, it was very fashionable to be disdainful of the bourgeois suburbs, but I secretly liked them.

  

  Jane Hamilton
  • School
  • High

• My maternal grandmother would sit, before binge-watching existed, and watch 'Poirot' until the cows came home. You couldn't pull her away from it.

  

  Billy Howle
  • Home
  • Grandmother

• I had a sister who was killed in a motorcycle wreck when I was around 4 years old. My parents adopted her son, and so my nephew became my brother. He was three years older than me, so through him, I was exposed to hip-hop.

  

  Big Smo
  • Parents
  • Son
  • Brother

• Retire at various times into the solitude of your own heart, even while outwardly engaged in discussions or transactions with others, and talk to God.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • God
  • Heart
  • Solitude

• I'm working hard and I think I'm where I should be at by now but I'm in no hurry at all, I'm taking one fight at a time, I want to win my fights. With the title shot I don't know yet but if I get the chance someday, I will be more than ready.

  

  Alexander Gustafsson
  • Chance
  • Fight
  • Ready

• I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • World
  • Great
  • Different

• Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Art
  • Value
  • Friendship

• It sounds stupid, but there's nothing like walking down the street and seeing a building that's older than 100 years old. I think London - not to sound pretentious - like New York, it's a big melting pot for all things and it's just got this energy that you can't find anywhere else.

  

  Christian Cooke
  • Energy
  • Stupid
  • Walking

• All great art is a visual form of prayer.

  

  Wendy Beckett
  • Great
  • Prayer
  • Form