Institutio Quotes & Sayings

There were times, I could say, later in the career, that I wished that my voice would be deeper for materials that I might've wanted to select to do. But that's the style of my voice. There's nothing I can do about the heighth of my voice. And so I learned to deal with it. — Jimmy Scott

Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed to efficient. — Jesse Schell

If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble. — Betty White

They disrupted the performance — Maryrose Wood

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!
(Institutio III.2.3) — John Calvin

We are usually angered when someone insults us, until Divine Grace comes upon us. When we receive Grace, we no longer feel hurt when others insult us but remain quiet and peaceful, as though the insult was not directed at us at all. — Thaddeus Of Vitovnica

Only courageous hearts can endure the bitterness of truth. — Michael Bassey Johnson

The profound danger is that, as noted above, we start to think of feeling as weakness. With the exception of anger (which is a secondary emotion, one that only serves as a socially acceptable mask for many of the more difficult underlying emotions we feel), we're losing our tolerance for emotion and hence for vulnerability. — Brene Brown

What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. — Charles Bukowski

Milk the goats now, Tiffany! Now, Tiffany, d'you hear! The trusting creatures look to you! They wait for you! Tiffany milks the goats. Do it, Tiffany! The hands know how, the mind will remember and grow stronger, Tiffany! — Terry Pratchett

I don't mind being sexy, but on my terms. To this day, I love sexuality. I love the art of sexuality. I love Lady Gaga and the performance of sexuality. The mysterious, the artistic and the slightly perverse. I'm interested in all that. — Helen Mirren

Kids, help your parents if they don't know how to use a smartphone. — Buzz Aldrin

In the beginning, there was physics. "Physics" describes how matter, energy, space, and time behave and interact with one another. The interplay of these characters in our cosmic drama underlies all biological and chemical phenomena. Hence everything fundamental and familiar to us earthlings begins with, and rests upon, the laws of physics. When we apply these laws to astronomical settings, we deal with physics writ large, which we call astrophysics. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Other effects in the show included models of the ships which were extremely expensive to make. We used to do our shots in front of a blue screen and they'd put the effects on after. — Gil Gerard