Spindelliften Quotes & Sayings

In magic, it takes two or three years for me to create a 5-minute illusion for me to get it to the level I want. — David Copperfield

A young man of godlilke proportions* was standing in the doorway.
* The better class of gods, anyway. Not the ones with the tentacles, obviously. — Terry Pratchett

I rejoice at Your word as one who finds great treasure!
[Psalm 119:162] — Anonymous

Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television. — William Gibson

Hwang's peacefulness had rendered him incapable of violence. For this to "work," though, the peacefulness must be genuine and deep. The smile must be real. The love must be real. If there is an intent to manipulate, to show the other up, to highlight the brutality by contrasting it with one's own nonviolence, then the power of the smile and the hug is much less strong. — Charles Eisenstein

No one who does not live with constant pain can imagine the toll it takes. The way it grinds you down. The sheer damnable tedium of it. — Mary Doria Russell

Think of Zen as the bow and Zazen as the arrow. The bow is the guiding theory behind the practice, while Zazen is the arrow which puts that practice into action. The better you understand the bow and the better you control the arrow, the better you'll be at hitting your target. — Bino Schree

What you yourself hate, don't do to your neighbor. This is the whole law; the rest is commentary. Go and study. — Hillel The Elder

You have to surrender less when you see a film than when you go and see something live. — Cate Blanchett

Neither of them is right. And neither of them is wrong. Prophecies are strange things. Their words are never clear. — Erin Hunter

I may be no better, but at least I am different. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Lo! A call for a bloody trial-
Retribution should it hail!
Whose? you ask,
For he that deems it a worthy task! — Carol Robi

Flexibility is the key to stability. — John Wooden

The whole time I've been an actor, from early in Houston, my goal has been to work - to keep doing it. I feel at my most satisfied as a human being when I'm working on a role. — Jim Parsons