Galen Beckett Quotes
when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.
Quotes to Explore
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You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.
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He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
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Work is both my living and my pleasure.
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More exposure has give to me more discipline because I am seeing that more people are wanting to observe what I am making/filming/singing; this does motivate me to make videos for every week.
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
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My grandma taught me how to hand-sew, so I'm always making things from hand-me-downs.
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I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.
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I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons.
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The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
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In a way, I have simplified my life by setting priorities.
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Israel ranks her priorities in the following way: security, land, and water.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.
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Idealist: a cynic in the making.
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.
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In the end, the type of parent you are is going to be something that you carry with you. ... Having multiple kids, it's been a gift in a way. It's keeping the priorities straighter.
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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It's the discipline to understand that the things that might make you rich or things might make you famous are sometimes worth pursuing and sometimes are not.
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I lifted the white cloth from the white face of the man that I had worshipped as an idol-looked upon as a demi-god. Notwithstanding the violence of the death of the President, there was something beautiful as well as grandly solemn in the expression of the placid face. There lurked the sweetness and gentleness of childhood, and the stately grandeur of godlike intellect. I gazed long at the face, and turned away with tears in my eyes and a choking sensation in my throat. Ah! never was man so widely mourned before. The whole world bowed their heads in grief when Abraham Lincoln died.
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Golden opportunities are nothing to laziness, but industry makes the commonest chances golden.
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The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.
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when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.
