Ted Dekker Quotes
A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.
Quotes to Explore
-
I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
-
I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.
-
We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.
-
I'd like to work with horses, but it doesn't pay very well. Maybe I'd like to go somewhere in the Middle East because they keep buying really nice horses for their Olympic teams - like, the Qataris.
-
Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
-
As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.
-
That's when I feel really excited about a painting. When it starts to feel real, when it feels like it has a personality.
-
Tim Conway was a little different from the rest. He was always in the back of the studio building something with the prop man, rewriting his lines, or plotting our demise.
-
I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they've experienced something.
-
In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
-
As I read, I start to form clear ideas of the characters and allow myself to be a proper conduit for this author's voice so that you will feel you have been on a seductive audio journey.
-
Just because a majority of the Supreme Court declares something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
-
I feel it's tougher for the guys, because if I break up with them, then they can go on and be forced to watch me on TV every day. I don't see them.
-
I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.
-
The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?
-
Informed opponents of Obama's healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of discourse.
-
It's good fun, yes, but when we play, we take it seriously and want to do well.
-
Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory.
-
The waste of intelligence. A community that finds it natural to suffocate with the care of home and children so many women’s intellectual energies is its own enemy and doesn’t realize it.” I waited in silence.
-
I don't know a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines - the ones that they believe that they believe; and the ones that they actually try to live by.
-
The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.
-
I studied every thing but never topped.... But today the toppers of the best universities are my employees...
-
A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.
