Saint Teresa of Avila Quotes
I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
Quotes to Explore
-
My sisters are amazing. My sister is my business partner, my twin. She's an amazing producer, writer. You know, we're just grinding and trying to make my mother proud as well as God.
-
There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
-
Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read?
-
I'm afraid to fail again.
-
People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'
-
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
-
I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
-
I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
-
When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
-
I've done a lot of costume dramas and things that are set in the past, and it's great to be able to have things that you can research and material that you can look at.
-
I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
-
I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
-
There's so much that I can give as a human being - and I know that.
-
I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.
-
Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
-
I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible.
-
Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
-
I am a Bolshevik.
-
Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.
-
E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
-
Celebrity is a corrosive condition for the soul. I have tried to restrain its inroads on me, but there are odd corners of my character that have been harmed.
-
In hip-hop, I wasn't very focused on delivering a message. It was just a string of lines that didn't connect. What I wanted to do is write stories... and affect someone's emotions with that song. I think as a soul singer, I'm able to accomplish that.
-
The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.
-
I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
