Porteuse Quotes & Sayings

In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it. — Oscar Wilde

We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary. — Alexander MacLaren

I love dreams. I know enough about them to know that dream logic is no story logic, and that you can rarely bring a dream back as a tale: it will have transformed from gold into leaves. from silk to cobwebs, on waking — Neil Gaiman

My words are like Mummy: butterflies trapped inside a net. — Holly Bodger

It is the absoluteness of meaninglessness that Christianity, as I understand it, inhabits and inflects, the shock and stark violence of the cross that discloses the living Christ. Revelation, like creation, arises not merely out of nothingness but by means of it. — Christian Wiman

When words are most empty, tears are most apt. — Max Lucado

It's funny how a flame can only burn your hand if you move too slow, you can tease it all you want and it never gets you, if your quick enough. — Neal Shusterman

As an actor and as a performer, I'm very much aware of the fact that my job is to change both physically and emotionally and that was what hurt the most - the fact that people were judging me based on nothing. — Jamie Campbell Bower

It's not what we do, so much as why we do it. — George R R Martin