I read ‘the Hobbit’ at the age when you’re supposed to read it. I didn’t read ‘The Lord Of The Rings.’ My father, who was an English teacher, advised me that once I had read ‘the Hobbit,’ that would be enough. I could then move on to Dostoyevsky. Ken Stott Read Quote
The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite. Hans Urs von Balthasar Read Quote
I think my mom recognized that I liked people to be happy. I like people to get along. And I like to be a peacemaker. And I liked the church. So she was like, ‘You should be a youth pastor.’ Pete Holmes Read Quote
If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender. Brian Eno Read Quote
There does not exist a painter who knows himself or knows what he is doing. Marcel Duchamp Read Quote
On stage, you have nothing to hide behind. It allows the work to live in a more organic place. It’s almost like a meditation. You have to go on that stage and be as present as possible. Ari Graynor Read Quote
There are two reasons why I’m in show business, and I’m standing on both of them. Betty Grable Read Quote
In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency. Henry Charles Carey Read Quote
