Brian D. McLaren Quotes
The romance of Creator and creation is far more wonderful and profound than anyone can ever capture in words.
Brian D. McLaren
Quotes to Explore
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I don't know too many people who, when the TV announcer says, 'Viewer discretion is advised', then turn the TV off. Those are code words for, 'Turn the sound up; this is gonna be really good.'
Dan Gilroy
Breakfast Club
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We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman
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Words that add no new information or aren't repeated for emphasis are just padding. A sentence may carry three or five or eight of them, each one as unnoticeable as an extra two ounces on your hips but collectively adding up to a large burden of fat.
Nancy Kress
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I'm certainly not into money and prestige. For me there is simply nothing more exciting than people involved in the creation of great products. That is what drives me.
Aaron Levie
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Here's the thing: I was charming. Well read and well spoken. Observant and even kind. In other words, I was kind of a catch. And I knew this was true. As long as you couldn't see me. If you saw me, you'd think I was the sea cow that had swallowed your catch.
Victor LaValle
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I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
O. Henry
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I'm on top cuz I deserve to beSo simmer down, calm your nerves at leastSpeak your words with peaceBefore you lay out on the curb deceased.
T.I.
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310. A pupil and a teacher. The pupil will not let anything be explained to him, for he continually interrupts with doubts, for instance as to the existence of things, the meaning for words, etc. The teacher says 'Stop interrupting me and do as I tell you. So far your doubts don't make sense at all.'
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Poetry is a voicing, a calling forth, words waiting to be vocalized.
Edward Hirsch
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I like the idea of the audience absorbing the language and getting to understand it as they journey through the film. It starts off being more obscure, but you get used to it. A 'Clockwork Orange' thing. I read 'Clockwork Orange' without any vocabulary, and I got to understand the words as I went through it. I like that process. It immerses you.
David MacKenzie
