Childan Quotes & Sayings

Another reason why we are often most happy in our troubles, is this - then we have the closest dealings with God. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We are all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life." Tennessee Williams — Anton War

Neither living nor learning was good without order. — Temple Grandin

When you're doing a live-action movie, you have your day set up and you're going to do this shot and this shot, and eventually the sun is going to go down. It's a sequential race to whatever is going to end the day. — Wes Anderson

A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits. — D.H. Lawrence

Their eyes, warm not only with human bond but with the shared enjoyment of the art objects he sold, their mutual tastes and satisfactions, remained fixed on him; they were thanking him for having things like these for them to see, pick up and examine, handle perhaps without even buying. Yes, he thought, they know what sort of store they are in; this is not tourist trash, not redwood plaques reading Muir Woods, Marin County, PSA, or funny signs or girly rings or postcards or views of the Bridge. The girl's eyes especially, large, dark. How easily, Childan thought, I could fall in love with a girl like this. How tragic my life, then; as if it weren't bad enough already. The stylish black hair, lacquered nails, pierced ears for the long dangling brass handmade earrings. "Your — Philip K. Dick

That propaganda is good which leads to success, and that is bad which fails to achieve the desired result. It is not propaganda's task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success. — Joseph Goebbels

Here is a piece of metal which has been melted until it has become shapeless. It represents nothing. Nor does it have design, of any intentional sort. It is merely amorphous. One might say, it is mere content, deprived of form." Childan nodded. "Yet," Paul said, "I have for several days now inspected it, and for no logical reason I feel a certain emotional fondness. Why is that? I may ask. I do not even now project into this blob, as in psychological German tests, my own psyche. I still see no shapes or forms. But it somehow partakes of Tao. You see?" He motioned Childan over. "It is balanced. The forces within this piece are stabilized. At rest. So to speak, this object has made its peace with the universe. It has separated from it and hence has managed to come to homeostasis. — Philip K. Dick

As a politician, you only meet two types of people. People with problems, and people who are right. — Gyles Brandreth

In Asia, red is the colour of joy; red is the colour of festivities and of celebration. In Chinese culture, blue is the colour of mourning. — Vincent Tan

You cook the native foods to perfection, Robert Childan thought. What they say is true: your powers of imitation are immense. Apple pie, Coca-Cola, stroll after the movie, Glenn Miller...you could paste together out of tin and rice paper a completely artificial America. Rice-paper Mom in the kitchen, rice-paper Dad reading the newspaper. Rice-paper put at his feet. Everything. — Philip K. Dick

It will end, Childan thought. Someday. The very idea of place. Not governed and governing, but people. — Philip K. Dick

I've been lucky to work with some of the most creative people and it's true that I enjoy filmmaking and I'm an enthusiast. — Nicolas Cage

The century's getting old and stale; it needs new tribes. — Clive Barker

A soldier picked up the still-living girl and carried her to the barren fireplace. — James Rollins

It is necessary for the mind to become free of the illusions of this world and become a fine and marvelous instrument of the Inner Being. — Samael Aun Weor

God the Compassionate and the Merciful, Tolerance incarnate, allows Mammon to have his nine days' wonder. — Mahatma Gandhi

In a foolish and loud manner he had argued politics; he had been rude in his disagreeing, and only the adroit tact of his host had sufficed to save the evening. How much I have to learn, Childan thought. They're so graceful and polite. And I - the white barbarian. It is true. — Philip K. Dick

[On the ERA Equality March:] It's the funniest thing. I don't feel there's any discrimination. I know my husband feels that way. — Pat Nixon

Someday death will take us to another star. — Vincent Van Gogh