Jiwei Sheng Quotes & Sayings

He's a pagan! I'm an artist! We're naturally sympathetic! — Sidney Howard

Everything man is doing in architecture is to try to go against nature. Of course we have to understand nature to know how far we have to go against nature. The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much. All architects have the tendency to do too much. — Frei Otto

An artist worthy of the name should express all the truth of nature, not only the exterior truth, but also, and above all, the inner truth. — Auguste Rodin

I never planned to win an Oscar. When I auditioned for 'Ray,' I was just thinking about what a great project it would be. — Jamie Foxx

Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself. — Susan B. Anthony

To long for total spiritual well-being is right and natural, but to believe that one is anywhere near it is to be utterly self-deceived. — J.I. Packer

The primary math of the real world is one and one equals two. The layman (as, often, do I) swings that every day. He goes to the job, does his work, pays his bills and comes home. One plus one equals two. It keeps the world spinning. But artists, musicians, con men, poets, mystics and such are paid to turn that math on its head, to rub two sticks together and bring forth fire. Everybody — Bruce Springsteen

Every day you live is a holiday from death. — Marty Rubin

We may be very sure that men fall in private long before they fall in public. They are backsliders on their knees long before they backslide openly in the eyes of the world. Like Peter, they first disregard the Lord's warning to watch and pray; and then, like Peter, their strength is gone, and in the hour of temptation they deny their Lord. The world takes notice of their fall, and scoffs loudly. But the world knows nothing of the real reason. — J.C. Ryle

During the Government's recent overhaul of GCSEs, I was asked to join a consultative group advising on the English Literature syllabus. It quickly became clear that the minister wanted to prescribe two Shakespeare plays for every 16-year-old in the land. I argued, to the contrary, that there should be one Shakespeare play and one play by anybody except Shakespeare. It cannot be in Shakespeare's interest for teenagers to associate him with compulsion, for his plays and his alone to have the dreaded status of set books. — Jonathan Bate