Milesdown Quotes & Sayings

Prayer is the key ingredient of the church. The enemy hates it when we pray. — Jacob Peterson

I went to Brunel University and very much wanted to go on to do a PhD in management, but then my acting career started to take off. In those days when you switched on the box there were hardly any brown or black faces. — Archie Panjabi

If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do? — Christiane Amanpour

Know what?" he said. "The one I'm really mad at is God. I try not to, but the truth is, when you boil it down, he let me get cancer." "Humph," I said. "I always thought that God must trust you a lot to let you go through this." Jeff flinched. "What do you mean?" "Well, he knew you believed in him. He must have known how you would react. He trusted you to go through it." Jeff frowned. "That's a thought. He's the one giving me the strength. That's funny. I'm mad at the one giving me strength." I hadn't meant to be profound. It just slipped out. — Jerry B. Jenkins

True science discovers God waiting behind every door. — Pope Pius XII

Of course I want to have a deliciously seductive story on the surface which will keep people engaged and amused, but primarily, I'm interested in other things. It's the texture of any given moment that fascinates me: what is really going on between people or in somebody's mind. — Deborah Eisenberg

The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written. — John Dufresne

Acting is a weird, kind of alienating job because you're in an isolated place. Even if you're working with a lot of other people, you're kind of alienated. Actors say that a lot, and I kind of find that to be true. — Jesse Eisenberg

I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the picture. What Big History can do is show us the nature of our complexity and fragility and the dangers that face us, but it can also show us our power, with collective learning. — David Christian

No one dies virgin, life screws us all. — Cambria Hebert

When you truly give up trying to be whole through others, you end up receiving what you always wanted from others. — Shakti Gawain

The only thing we are as actors are messengers. That's all we are. Correct? We are delivering the playwright's intention through the concept of the director. And I come on stage; if I feel confident in the role, then I give it away. — Patti LuPone

Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear. — Edna St. Vincent Millay