Wijeweera Film Quotes & Sayings

For a lot of people, well-meaning teaching has made poetry seem arcane, difficult, a kind of brown-knotting medicine that might be good for you but doesn't taste so good. So I tried to make a collection of poetry that would be fun. And that would bring out poetry as an art, rather than the challenge to say smart things. — Robert Pinsky

In the moral realm, there is very little consensus left in Western countries over the proper basis of moral behavior. And because of the power of the media, for millions of men and women the only venue where moral questions are discussed and weighed is the talk show, where more often than not the primary aim is to entertain, even shock, not to think. When Geraldo and Oprah become the arbiters of public morality, when the opinion of the latest media personality is sought on everything from abortion to transvestites, when banality is mistaken for profundity because [it's] uttered by a movie star or a basketball player, it is not surprising that there is less thought than hype. Oprah shapes more of the nation's grasp of right and wrong than most of the pulpits in the land. Personal and social ethics have been removed from the realms of truth and structures of thoughts; they have not only been relativized, but they have been democratized and trivialized. — D. A. Carson

Park was never going to love her more than he did on the day they said goodbye. And she couldn't bear to think of him loving her less. — Rainbow Rowell

Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you. — Seth Godin

Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name. — Immanuel Kant

Everybody in recovery smokes. If you don't like smoking, don't even bother trying to get sober. Just stay drunk. — Augusten Burroughs

Working with composers often is a really frustrating experience because you speak a different language and, oftentimes, they take two or three jobs, at the same time. They're difficult and pretentious and they're tormented artists. — Peter Berg

My understanding is that Exxon, in particular, did fund a variety of small think tanks to generate what amounts to propaganda against understanding of what climate change was doing, the human role in causing it. — John Holdren

Prayerfulness gives us the ability to stay focused and faithful to our Lord. — Euginia Herlihy

The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too.
[The human element] — W. Somerset Maugham

The life of a film is very strange. Once the film is done, you wish you could forget about it and move on. — James Gray

Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment. — Craig Venter

When I find a look that I like, that's my entire wardrobe. — Jeremy Irvine

It's easier to go on living a life without any life left in it, than it is to just say 'fuck it' and leave. — Colleen Hoover

The heart is where the journey of forgiveness begins. — Stephen Richards