Bitmapped Screen Quotes & Sayings

...[I]n any inquiry you are likely to attain more nearly to knowledge of your object in proportion to the care and accuracy with which you have prepared yourself to understand that object in itself[.] — Socrates

Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility. — Oscar Wilde

But I kept at it with the help-wanted ads. My standards were sliding swiftly. At first I had insisted I would only work at a company with a mission I believed in. Then I thought maybe it would be fine as long as I was learning something new. After that I decided it just couldn't be evil. Now I was carefully delineating my personal definition of evil. — Robin Sloan

Do you want this to be a love story? — Jenny Downham

I don't want you to feel sorry for me. I want you to forgive yourself for being human, just like you would forgive anyone else. — Brenda Hodnett

Never let anyone dim your shine. — Dee Dee M. Scott

Cooking - of whatever kind, everyday or extreme - situates us in the world in a very special place, facing the natural world on one side and the social world on the other. The cook stands squarely between nature and culture, conducting a process of translation and negotiation. Both nature and culture are transformed by the work. And in the process, I discovered, so is the cook. — Michael Pollan

If you have a longing in your heart to hear a deeper truth, there's a mysterious way in which that truth will find you. — Marianne Williamson

What I like about being an actress is that it keeps you feminine. Being a director and producer makes you manly and very masculine and I don't like that quality in a woman. But I'll do it when the film is very close to me. — Bai Ling

Our natural reason tells us that good people finish first and cheaters never prosper. However, believers have no right to God's common grace any more than they do to his saving grace. God remains free to show compassion on whomever he will, even to give breath, health, prosperity, and friends to those who breathe threats against him. — Michael S. Horton

My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant. — Mara Wilson