I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.
'The Quiet Ones' was my first film, let alone my first horror film, and I had so much fun. I had such a laugh, every single day. I look like such a feral child in it.
How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?
I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It can accommodate a lot of life forms.
I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used to exist in every single city.
I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form.
With its grace and carelessness, it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though [all] could be swept into a nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm.
The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form. ... It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell.
In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance than all the pages in War and Peace.
It was about the way a moment, a single moment, could change things and make you decide to try to be someone different.
Mark this on your wall and remember it always: The greatest single most powerful enemy to success is success itself.
Children are born with imaginations in mint condition, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Then life corrects for grandiosity.
A town teeming with life. Full to overflowing. And every day, the good people counted their blessings. Every single one…
Our lie is like a cancer that's spread to every single area of our lives.
...and thus he found his single source of joy in the society of other people: frightening the girls with his penis.
Find a way to change your attitude for the better and your life will change for the better with little effort from you.
I will one day accept death with gratitude if I meet it having lived a life that became truly my own.
I do not see the point in dressing and acting and speaking in a way that makes you feel more comfortable and me feel less comfortable.
Nobody on Earth can tell you how you should live your life. Nobody with any real authority anyway.
Some things are so powerful and so beautiful that to see them will turn your soul inside out.
The easiest way to disarm a bully or a jerk is to take any insult he throws at you and follow it with, 'I know, and isn’t it fabulous?!
