Excavated Material And Superimposed Quotes & Sayings

I'm half Jewish, but no one believes me because my looks lean a little WASP-y ... It's sometimes hard for me to get the roles I'm drawn to. — Armie Hammer

I am a better person when I have less on my plate. — Elizabeth Gilbert

So far as we feel sympathy, we feel we are not accomplices to what caused the suffering. Our sympathy proclaims our innocence as well as our impotence. To that extent, it can be (for all our good intentions) an impertinent- if not inappropriate- response. To set aside the sympathy we extend to others beset by war and murderous politics for a reflection on how our privileges are located on the same map as their suffering, and may- in ways we might prefer not to imagine- be linked to their suffering, as the wealth as some may imply the destitution of others, is a task for which the painful, stirring images supply only an initial spark. — Susan Sontag

Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself down to be trampled underfoot by all and despised, accepting injustice, contempt and mockery; unless he undergoes all these things with joy for the sake of the Lord, not claiming any kind of human reward whatsoever - glory or honor or earthly pleasures - he cannot become a true Christian. — Mark The Evangelist

If you are sure that you are about to fail, then this strange and serene calmness can come over you or the most abject fear and panic and feeling of helplessness. — Peter Gallagher

First you study photography, then you practice photography, then you serve photography, and finally one becomes photography. — Ralph Gibson

Ingratitude is treason to mankind. — James Thomson

I like to read the bible in public places where people are watching me read it. And I like to mumur out to myself: 'Bullshit!' — Zach Galifianakis

I've learned sometimes you just have to take the bad from people. — Darrell Hammond

Dogs have masters. Cats have slaves. — Rhett Devane

When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action. — Plutarch

It's always a better choice to write a new book than it is to keep pounding your head against the submissions wall with a book that's just not happening. The next book you write could be the book, the one that isn't a fight to get representation for at all. — Diana Peterfreund

But, if the knowledge of the occult powers of nature opens the spiritual sight of man, enlarges his intellectual faculties, and leads him unerringly to a profounder veneration for the Creator, on the other hand ignorance, dogmatic narrow-mindedness, and a childish fear of looking to the bottom of things, invariably leads to fetish-worship and superstition. — H. P. Blavatsky