Nechama Tec Quotes & Sayings

The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know? — Damon Albarn

The philanthropist can never forget classes and callings. He says, with a modest swagger, 'I have invited twenty-five factory hands to tea.' If he said 'I have invited twenty-five chartered accountants to tea,' everyone would see the humour of so simple a classification. — G.K. Chesterton

He took it out like a sprinter, and brought it home like a distance swimmer. — Jennifer Lane

Some things are only real because they represent what we think. When we learn the truth and think it, the old reality is no longer real to us and loses its hold on us. The truth sets us free. — C. Terry Warner

Time was to sin and to enjoy, time was to scoff at God and at the warnings of His holy church, time was to defy His majesty, to disobey His commands, to hoodwink one's fellow men, to commit sin after sin and to hide one's corruption from the sight of men. — James Joyce

If human life is to survive on this planet, the old dualistic worldview, with people on one side and the environment on the other, must yield to a new vision that connects us with everything else and leads us to care for and take responsibility for it. — Huston Smith

Nowadays it seems more and more like the 'business' in 'show business' is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it's all part of getting people in to see the movies. — Jeff Bridges

After all, Americans can be terrifying. — Connie Willis

The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate. — Alan Paton

What the survival of threatened languages means, perhaps, is the endurance of dozens, hundreds, thousands of subtly different notions of truth. — Mark Abley

It isn't time that folds, it's space. — Kathryn Davis

I've always been drawn to the best writing that I can find. I don't care if it's in movies or theater or whatever - if you want to be in front of an audience, you have to do writing you believe in. — Ethan Hawke

We will be in this race as long as it takes. We're going to be in as many states as it takes to ensure that I'm the nominee and that Donald Trump never gets to 1,236 delegates, which is what he needs to be the nominee. — Marco Rubio

I would write a thousand foolish things that one might be to the point, if only it might make us praise God more. — Teresa Of Avila

Very suddenly. Yes, quite suddenly, I didn't feel like I could handle my feeling of aloneness. — Markus Zusak