Unworthily Receiving Quotes & Sayings

I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities. — Ben Kingsley

I've done every tour with them since then and will always be with them as long as they're together. — Jimmy Carl Black

I didn't follow any rules at all. I made my own. — Tony Iommi

There simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction. — Jonah Lehrer

There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal, as if it were not a benefit and a joy to a man, being what he is, to know that many are, have been, and will be better than he. — George Santayana

My favorite parts about 'The Battle of Five Armies' were the moments where you could clearly see that we were looking at New Zealand. That it wasn't done in post, it wasn't CGI, it was the beautiful, incredible creation of Mother Nature in all of her splendor. — Evangeline Lilly

Beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living. — Bob Marley

In terms of collaboration, working on a new piece is always thrilling, as I'm sure most people would say, because the playwright is in the room and the piece itself evolves in response to what is happening in the room. — Gideon Glick

Sane people quit — David Hieatt

Religion is scarcely distinguishable from childhood delusions like the "imaginary friend" and the bogeyman under the bed. Unfortunately the God delusion possesses adults. A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence and such delusions ask for trouble because disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasonable argument. Most religious people are very decent and nice But in a sense they have brought religious extremism on the world by teaching people the virtues of unquestioned faith. — Richard Dawkins

The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose. — Edvard Munch

the passionate defense of the Bible as a "history book" among the more conservative wings of Christianity, despite intentions, isn't really an act of submission to God; it is making God submit to us. In its most extreme forms, making God look like us is what the Bible calls idolatry. — Peter Enns

Almost any age is better than twenty-two. — David Rakoff

The day is an epitome of the year. The night is the winter, the morning and evening are the spring and fall, and the noon is the summer. — Henry David Thoreau

The poem is lonely. It is lonely and en route. Its author stays with it. Does this very fact not place the poem already here, at its inception, in the encounter, in the mystery of encounter? — Paul Celan