Substansial Quotes & Sayings

It isn't right for the artist to become the servant of the state. — Salman Rushdie

Remember, I'm West Point, where I was born. My father went there. — Gore Vidal

My dad died from cancer when I was 18, and my mom was in a really tough spot. So I wanted to try to help at home. I had started doing some technology consulting. — Mike McCue

In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve. — Yasmine Al Masri

I believe that in order to be a good leader you must understand the value of praising people to success. — Mary Kay Ash

Now that was a good pussy. — Carlos Malvar

People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don't yet have a fully adult concept of scary. — William Gibson

What still doth waste, and wasting as this light,
Are my sad days unto eternal night. — Mary Wroth

The idea that everyone is strong enough to bear immediate contact with God is false, and conceivable only by an age that has forgotten what it means to stand in the direct ray of divine power, that substitutes sentimental religious 'experience' for the overwhelming reality of God's presence. To claim that everyone could and should be exposed to that reality is sacrilegious. — Romano Guardini

However, he was happy. He felt he was conquering nature. He laughed aloud. He felt he was stronger than the elements. In this type of weather animals hid in their holes and did not come out. He was out, fighting the elements. He was a man, master of the world. — Jack London

My thinking was that today's spectator is so well-versed in film language that all theories about suspense, as argued by Dreyer and Hitchcock, on what makes you scared in cinema, can be ditched. It's the spectator, finally, who's going to construct the menace and the fear. — Bruno Dumont

Loyal and substansial Catholic service on the battlefield undermined one of the most longstanding objections to emancipation: namely, that since Catholics owed religious allegiance to a foreign authority in the person of the Pope, their political and patriotic allegiance must necessarily be suspect. — Linda Colley