Wietsma Quotes & Sayings

Directing, writing, producing and starring is just too tough. — Stephen Chow

The Italians have long known what makes a livable town or city. — Norman Foster

Top-up fees mean that universities are increasingly under pressure to confer degrees upon students, who perceive the degree as a commodity they've purchased. Failure doesn't enter into anyone's calculations. — Sarah Churchwell

If a god had made the world, might world always be right, that would be so wise, we'd be spared so much suffering. But we made the world - out of our smallness and weakness. Our lives are awkward and fragile ... — Edward Bond

Oh, the positive power of an instructed tongue! How many weary people do we encounter day after day who could use a sustaining word? — Beth Moore

I often think the doctrine of fasting in Lent and having meatless days as old-fashioned ... it might be better to give up television. — Michael Ramsey

Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality. — Leonard Shlain

They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend. I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance. — Joseph Conrad

Knowledge is the mind's food.
Joy is the heart's food.
Love is the soul's food. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I don't think it's so important who you vote for - you vote for who you believe in. The important thing is to vote, because it's our way and it's the best way. — Cass Elliot

I don't rehearse with my actors ... the first rehearsal is the first time we turn the camera on ... Sydney Pollack never rehearsed his actors, and I found out that's allowed ... so you film reactions; you don't create them. — Ira Sachs

Feel it, Be it, Do it. — Joseph C. Parker

Pardon of sin must ever be an act of pure mercy, and therefore to that attribute the awakened sinner flies. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon