Kircher Quotes & Sayings

Nothing is more beautiful than to know all. — Athanasius Kircher

All nights end, and all storms clear. The only storms that last are those within your own soul. — Christie Golden

In moments they would be here - the ones Kircher had called the Cenobites, theologians of the Order of the Gash. Summoned from their experiments in the higher reaches of pleasure, to bring their ageless heads into a world of rain and failure. — Clive Barker

Tolkien fans reacted so strongly to 'Lord Of The Rings' as a franchise because it stayed true; the heart of it was true to the book. — William Kircher

The world is bound in secret knots. — Athanasius Kircher

Everyone in the '80s was reading Tolkien; he invented this whole medieval fantasy genre. — William Kircher

I think fiction writers should work. If you have a job and are not living off advances or grants, you never have to make concessions in your writing, ever. — Hanya Yanagihara

Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment. — Dale Carnegie

If you want to act, do school plays. If they're not there, create them, and the same with local repertory. They are the grounding for a lot of people. Make it happen. — William Kircher

The thing about working with Peter Jackson is that, at the end of the day, he is a passionate artist. — William Kircher

The logic of limitless probability — Rob Kircher

Two historical figures play prominent roles in this book: a pair of priests who lived centuries apart but who were tied together by fate. During the seventeenth century, Father Athanasius Kircher was known as the Leonardo da Vinci of the Jesuit Order. — James Rollins

The father of Egyptology was Father Athanasius Kircher. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Whoever has the desire to pursue philosophy correctly should look to Nature's Archetype in every matter, so that by taking up Ariadne's thread in her intricate labyrinth he may keep himself safe and secure from wrong turns and deviant paths. — Athanasius Kircher

The problem is you can't wear your old shoes too often because people say, 'You're still wearing that shoe?' — Jochen Zeitz

It's great to work with people who are jobbing actors at different stages of their career, and learning from them, and getting over being star-struck by somebody like Ian McKellen because he has such a long prestigious history in the business, but then seeing how he works on the camera; you never stop learning. — William Kircher

It's an old Orc axe, which means he's been in battle. Orcs have killed members of his family, and he's trying to find the Orc that did it to him so that he can give it back. But as the journey goes on, Bifur actually becomes more lucid. He becomes a bit more focused, and the journey is a bit healing for him. — William Kircher

For some time, I thought being a producer would be a more fulfilling career than being an actor. But then I went to a conference in Cannes with 300 other producers, all desperately chasing finance for their projects ... and realized being an actor wasn't so bad after all! — William Kircher

There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism. — Vanna Bonta

Love at first sight is a hypnosis: I am fascinated by an image: at first shaken, electrified, stunned, "paralysed" as Menon was by Socrates, the model of loved objects, of captivating images, or again converted by an apparition, nothing distinguishing the path of enamoration from the Road to Damascus; subsequently ensnared, held fast, immobilised, nose stuck to the image (the mirror). In that moment when the other's image comes to ravish me for the first time, I am nothing more than the Jesuit Athanasius Kirchner's wonderful Hen: feet tied, the hen went to sleep with her eyes fixed on the chalk line, which was traced not far from her beak; when she was untied, she remained motionless, fascinated, "submitting to her vanquisher," as the Jesuit says (1646); yet, to waken her from her enchantment, to break off the violence of her Image-repertoire (vehemens animalis imaginatio), it was enough to tap her on the wing; she shook herself and began pecking in the dust again. — Roland Barthes

Truth is short; lies are long. — Jeff Funk

Respect for Human rights preserves us as A nation. — Auliq Ice

I believe in marriage. I believe that two good people can be happy together for a lifetime. It's the only thing even close to a religion that I have, and I cling to it with almost messianic zeal. But it is a belief system that makes unreasonable demands on its adherents, all of us sacrificing to the bone for a reward that may or may not come at the end of our days; and all of us steadfastly refusing to see the mounting evidence that long-term happy marriages, if they exist at all, are pretty hard to come by. We all want to think that miracles are possible. Otherwise, marriage is just a lot of hard work. — Kate Hilton

Adolescence is a difficult time at the best of times, and especially in a smaller town - there's all these different energies going on. — William Kircher

To awaken within the dream is our purpose now. When we are awake within the dream, the ego-created earth-drama comes to an end and a more benign and wondrous dream arises. This is the new earth. — Eckhart Tolle

Films are always different from books. — William Kircher

My favourite thing is to be somebody else, no longer be me. — Andie MacDowell

She was being nice, and Oscar was always reminding me that most people are fundamentally decent and that it doesn't pay to think badly of them. — Sarah Moore Fitzgerald

If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't got very far at being equal. — Helen Fielding

I am pretty sure that if she had been one of us, that is, one of his own, he would have taken sharper measures with her; but he said we must never attempt to treat other people's children as our own, for they are not our own. We did not love them enough, he said, to make severity safe either for them or for us. — George MacDonald