Eliade Mircea The Sacred And The Profane Quotes & Sayings

I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is. — Eric Idle

My plenteous joys, Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow. Sons, kinsmen, thanes, And you whose places are the nearest, know We will establish our estate upon Our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter The Prince of Cumberland; which honour must Not unaccompanied invest him only, But signs of nobleness, like stars, shall shine On all deservers. From hence to Inverness, — William Shakespeare

A famous Tibetan meditator once said, "I have only one task at hand: to stand guard at the entrance of my mind. When the afflictions are at the ready, I remain at the ready; when they stand easy, I stand easy." Once — Dalai Lama XIV

Somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring. — Brandon Sanderson

Most failures could have been converted into successes if someone had held on another minute or made more effort. — Napoleon Hill

What we do at its very, very best, at its very, very most, will shift us slightly in our seat. If only for two hours, great. If for the rest of our lives, even better. — Campbell Scott

Girls can do everything men can do ... just backwards and in heels — Ginger Rogers

Or do you truly mean for us to believe that when you were running along rainbows, you never saw anyone fall? Someone plummets out of the sky, they're not going to get up and walk away from it. They're going to die. — Seanan McGuire

In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time. — Mircea Eliade

We cannot put cinema in parallel with the political, because politics are something dirty and cinema is not dirty. — Ali Suliman

I just started to want to be more hands on, and again, because of the nature of this job which was to evaluate the writing apart from the production, I got clear on what a director did and I became interested in directing, so I started to do that in the late 80s. — Rob Urbinati

I told you Clara, I don't stay in one place long. And nobody comes with me. I don't marry none of them either. Erase me from your head because you're just not the one kid. Not just that you're young, which you are, but what I want is a voice. A way a woman talks to me, says things to me I don't know and am astonished to hear and I'll know her as soon as I hear her. — Joyce Carol Oates

Even after every emotional accident , the show must go on. — Upasana Banerjee