Woodlark Hotel Quotes & Sayings

The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change. — William James

You must convince your readers that your characters are flesh and blood rather than words on dead skin, that their loves and hatreds and passions are as deep and present as the readers' own. Your task is to delight, to pleasure, to lift your reader to another sphere of being and then strand him there, floating above the earth and panting for more lines. — Bruce Holsinger

I'm lucky enough to be able to make only movies I'm interested in seeing. That has to be an instinctive thrust. The audience knows when you're faking it. They can hang any kind of moniker they want on me. — Tom Hanks

Sacred being is beauty. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny — Robert A. Heinlein

When a spectator approaches a painting with his own particular set of filters or theories, be they historical, political, intellectual or whatever - he either finds what he is looking for or dismisses the work as irrelevant. He has deprived himself of the possibility of any fresh experience or revelation by looking only for confirmation of that which he already 'knows. — Douglas Portway

Then she rushes to pick up Asha from school, where she is known only as "Asha's mom" by the other mothers, who seem to all spend a lot of time together. Somer has no time for the PTA and bake sales. She has no time for herself. Her profession no longer defines her, but neither does being a mother. Both are pieces of her, and yet they don't seem to add up to a whole. — Shilpi Somaya Gowda

Regrettably, we've made it acceptable to sit in church week after week & do nothing & still call yourself a 'Christian.' — Ed Stetzer

The calmness was fracturing, tendrils of fear seeping through her mind like ivy. Once the fear consumed her, she'd run. — Caroline Hanson

Essentially a soldier, the Christian is always on the lookout. — Romano Guardini