Finishers Project Quotes & Sayings

Your life is your sermon ... Are you a good translation? — Mark Batterson

Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep. — Friedrich Nietzsche

He was surprised to discover that when rich people were starving they looked so much like the poor — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The only consolation was that - to the religious mind - adversity is good for the soul. — Mike Carey

I'm very patient and always willing to try things but I have some resistance as well because I have my own vision. I have resistance sometimes because I see a director who's freaking out and wants to have control and they sometimes anticipate about what I'm going to be doing or not. — Juliette Binoche

Artlessness will never do in love matters; and that girl is born a simpleton who has it either by nature or affectation. — Jane Austen

In that sense, this is not a standard book of interviews. Nor is it what you might call a book of 'celebrity conversations.' What I was searching for - with increasing clarity as the sessions progressed - was something akin to the heart's natural resonance. What I did my best to hear, of course, was that resonance coming from Ozawa's heart. After all, in our conversations I was the interviewer and he was the interviewee. But what I often heard at the same time was the resonance of my own heart. At times that resonance was something I recognized as having long been a part of me, and at other times it came as a complete surprise. In other words, through a kind of sympathetic vibration that occurred during all of these conversations, I may have been simultaneously discovering Seiji Ozawa and, bit by bit, Haruki Murakami. — Haruki Murakami

The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself. — William Rees-Mogg

No man has ever ruled other men for their own good. — George Davis Herron

The trouble was, all their eyes came to me when I opened the door and Morrie grinned a my-girl's-gonna-get-herself-some grin. Colt looked like he wanted someone to tear his own fingernails out by the roots. And Cal looked like he was having trouble not busting a gut laughing. — Kristen Ashley

As children, my siblings and I were actively discouraged from acting. I have no memories of going on set with my parents - aside from 'Gulliver's Travels.' — Tom Sturridge