Happy Birthday Dear Father Quotes & Sayings

We have to learn that personal suffering is a more effective key, a more rewarding principle for exploring the world in thought and action than personal good fortune. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Depression is hard to describe not just because it is complex and abstract but also because it occupies the part of us capable of describing things. — Sarah Manguso

Old folks don't lie to their friends. They don't have the time. — P.S. Meronek

The best introduction to the psychological world of one of the most important and gifted writers of our time. — Italo Calvino

When an actor is in the moment, he or she is engaged in listening for the next right thing creatively. When a painter is painting, he or she may begin with a plan, but that plan is soon surrendered to the painting's own plan. This is often expressed as 'The brush takes the next stroke.' In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express — Julia Margaret Cameron

There is only one purpose of pentecost; that is to effectively evangelize lost souls. — T.L. Osborn

I'd love to make a second film, I'd love to make a third, and I'd love to have a long career doing this. — John Krokidas

What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known. — Samuel Johnson

Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an instrument, in the same way as genius in respect to art. It would be as foolish to expect that our moral and ethical systems would turn out virtuous, noble, and holy beings, as that our aesthetic systems would produce poets, painters, and musicians. — Arthur Schopenhauer

The subject of death is taboo. We feel, perhaps only subconsciously, that to be in contact with death in any way, even indirectly, somehow confronts us with the prospect of our own deaths, draws our own deaths closer and makes them more real and thinkable. — Raymond Moody

If I took the nicer subway, it meant I had to go through Manhattan every morning to get there, and that took a really long time. The subway line that ran the short way was the G line, which stopped exclusively in Brooklyn and Queens. That might be the only time the word exclusive has been used to describe the G train. — Mindy Kaling

Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation. — Oscar Isaac

You should be able to tell your child, "This is an actor. And she's older than Mommy!" — Rosie O'Donnell