Famous Northern Renaissance Quotes & Sayings

Character is primary. What happens as far as plot and events is not as intriguing to me as what's happening inside this particular person. — Alice McDermott

The result of these trends is that today the courts, unrestrained by
higher law and disdainful of majority will, are the dominant force in American politics. As law professor Russell Hittinger writes, in Casey the Court has laid down a "new covenant" by which it agrees to give citizens the right to decide for themselves the meaning of life, to decide what is right and wrong, to do as they please. In exchange for this guarantee, the Court asks only that the people accept the Court's assumption of ultimate power.3S Or as Notre Dame's Gerard Bradley puts it, the Court has said: "We will be your Court, and you will be our people. — Charles W. Colson

Usually when an athlete gets a reputation it sticks with him, even when he's an old man. — Frank Deford

He doesn't trouble himself with closing the shutter - total darkness, sense deprivation, might activate his thoughts. Better to stare at something and hope to feel his eyelids grow heavy. Already, his tiredness seems fragile or unreliable, like a pain that comes and goes. He needs to nurture it, and to avoid thoughts at all costs. — Ian McEwan

The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself. — Kate Millett

If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves. — Willie Nelson

Every inflection and every gesture a lie, every smile a grimace. — Ingmar Bergman

Because he did have that gift, truly he did, he was the Man of a Thousand Voices and a Voice. If you wanted to know how your ketchup bottle should talk in its television commercial, if you were unsure as to the ideal voice for your packet of garlic-flavoured crisps, he was your very man. He made carpets speak in warehouse advertisements, he did celebrity impersonations, baked beans, frozen peas. — Salman Rushdie

Every audition I get, I agonise over and I put everything I can into it. — Rafe Spall

It was easy to laugh at such conceits in full daylight. But night had a way of lending weight to phantasms. — Scott Lynch

Winter was much slower. Cold June days were downright oppressive. — G.J. Walker-Smith

And if you're going to criticize me for not finishing the whole thing and tying it up in a bow for you, why, do us both a favor and write your own damn book, only have the decency to call it a romance instead of a history, because history's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied. It ain't a pretty package, but then it's not your birthday that I know of so I'm under no obligation to give you a gift. — Orson Scott Card

Why not celebrate those who want to marry and bring up a family? — Ian McKellen