One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.
Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.
He looked at me with the tired, ignorant, slightly stupid expression that is so common in people who aren't used to seeing the broader picture in small things.
All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.
There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of 'expediency.' There is no such thing as sliding up hill. In morals, the only sliders are backsliders.
The sound of natural things was wonderful to us. In the middle of all the suffering, it seemed pure, untouched.
There is just as much beauty in birth as there is in death, and it changes our lives just the same. They both add things to us and take things away." Pg. 155 Undone
Vets do what doctors used to - diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death.
Each day we hold things in our heart, sometimes these things are heavy. Carrying God's grace with us each and every day lightens life's load.
I think you use the negative things that happen from the year before - and from other years, too - to spur you to do the things you need to do to take the next step.
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day.
The Bible tells us that there are some things worth fighting for. In fact, the Bible says there's some things worth dying for.
I'm definitely a fan of juxtaposition. Using the most beautiful line to say the most horrific thing - I think one of the main things in songwriting is definitely friction between the words and the melody.
I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.
Where would we be without inhibitions? They're quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.
If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life.
Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.
I see beauty in the future of the Internet, but I'm worried that we might not see that. I'm worried that we are running into problems because of online crime. Online crime is the one thing that might take these things away from us.
The sacred, I shall say, is that which acts as your partner in the search for the highest and deepest things: the real, the true, the good, and the beautiful. The name I'd like to give to the kind of relationship that gives us a chance to find such t...
