Filipacchi Media Quotes & Sayings

I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline. — Pope Francis

I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable. — Edith Sitwell

that younger people are so used to text-based communications, where they have time to gather their thoughts and precisely plan what they are going to say, that they are losing their ability to have spontaneous conversation. She argues that the muscles in our brain that help us with spontaneous conversation are getting less exercise in the text-filled world, so our skills are declining. When we did the large focus group where we split the room by generation - kids on the left, parents on the right - a strange thing happened. Before the show started, we noticed that the parents' side of the room was full of chatter. People were talking to one another and asking how they had ended up at the event and getting to know people. On the kids' side, everyone was buried in their phones and not talking to anyone around them. — Aziz Ansari

Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo. — Kirk Hammett

Become a man or woman of prayer...Let your heart and mind be kept close to the principal calling of your life, which is to hunger and thirst after God and His righteousness...Let the thoughts and intents of your heart be shaped and guided by time spent in His presence. — Ravi Zacharias

I started to write about science and medicine at the 'Washington Post,' in the early days of the AIDS epidemic. — Michael Specter

A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Satan and that man is still man even after 1000 years of the righteous, benevolent rule of Christ on earth. Even under the most ideal circumstances imaginable, man is still totally depraved and in desperate need of a new heart by the regeneration of the Spirit of God. — Mark Hitchcock

But, to protect men, we must have the power of controlling them. We must first enslave them before we can protect them. — George Fitzhugh

To care for others requires an ever-increasing acceptance. — Henri J.M. Nouwen