Adventureland Amusement Quotes & Sayings

Jesus prescribes a doctrinal test for false prophets because a behavioral test is unreliable. — John Robbins

It's disingenuous to say that criticism doesn't get to you or you don't hear it or that you ignore it. When everybody says, 'That's crap. I hated that,' you hear it. But it's much, much worse when they're right: when you feel that it is an absolute piece of tosh. I made the film I wanted to make, so you just have to find a way of getting over it. — Stephen Daldry

A man can love too.'
'No; -- hardly. He can admire, and he can like, and he can fondle and be fond. He can admire and approve, and perhaps worship. He can know of a woman that she is part of himself, the most sacred part, and therefore will protect her from the very winds. But all that will not make love. It does not come to a man that to be separated from a woman is to be dislocated from his very self. A man has but one centre, and that is himself. A woman has two. Though the second may never been seen by her, may live in the arms of another, may do all for that other that man can do for woman, -- still, still, though he be half the globe asunder from her, still he is to her the half of her existence. If she really love, there is, I fancy no end of it. — Anthony Trollope

Let me be cursed, let me be base and vile, but let me also kiss the hem of that garment in which my God is clothed; let me be following the devil at the same time, but still I am also your son, Lord, and I love you, and I feel a joy without which the world cannot stand and be. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing. — Holbrook Jackson

I'm not religious, but I like God and he likes me. — Tony Kushner

The body can survive while the soul dies. — John Shors

Governments are like underwear. They start smelling pretty bad if you don't change them once in a while. — Margaret Murray

These aren't accidents. They are significant choices, like the choice of a totemic animal: something in your spirit aligns with theirs. — Phyllis Rose