T. S. Eliot Quotes
Atheism should always be encouraged (i.e. rationalistic not emotional atheism) for the sake of the Faith.
Quotes to Explore
-
In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
-
I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.
-
Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
-
Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
-
My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
-
I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
-
I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
-
Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
-
I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.
-
I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.
-
You can't, no matter what anyone says, build a movie around someone.
-
Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
-
It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.
-
I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
-
When we were shooting 'Oz,' my wife was doing 'Beauty and the Beast' on Broadway, singing and dancing. It was an interesting dichotomy in our house.
-
The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
-
Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
-
I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
-
I think, probably, the place that I feel I most belong is a movie set. It doesn't matter where it is in the world or who I'm making the movie with; that's the closest thing that I've got to a sense of placement. So I guess acting was a way of finding a home, if that makes sense.
-
Excuses are the crutches of the uncommitted.
-
[People] might have a different word for the yearning of the heart and the yearning of the spirit that is looking for what I call "God," it still is the same thing. It is the heart's yearning to know the origin of its mystery. It's a heart's yearning to know the power of the divine in each of our lives. It's a heart's yearning to be connected to that.
-
People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.
-
Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular relation to the characters in the story and reach into the text after the objects of their desire, sharing their longing but also detached from it, seeing their view of reality but also its mistakenness. It is almost like being in love.
-
Atheism should always be encouraged (i.e. rationalistic not emotional atheism) for the sake of the Faith.
