Maggie Wheeler famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The whole bible is the working out of the relationship between God and man. God is not a dictator barking out orders and demanding silent obedience. Were it so, there would be no relationship at all. No real relationship goes just one way. There are always two active parties. We must have reverence and awe for God, and honor for the chain of tradition. But that doesn't mean we can't use new information to help us read the holy texts in new ways.

  • Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.

  • You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.

  • There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a billion people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you.

  • I love movies, I've always been interested in them, but I wanted to wait for the right time to start acting.

  • I love movies, but I think people think relationships are supposed to go how they go in movies. The ones I like are the ones that represent life.

  • I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.

  • I just love movies, so suddenly, you're political about movies, and that's dark. It's just not fun when something you love becomes calculated.

  • Sometimes I sing along in the car, if something good is playing like Marvin Gaye.

  • Is there a short-eared koobish, then?' Mmmyes ...' said J.Lo. 'But it is technically not really a koobish. Is more alike a kind of singing pumpkin.' We had conversations like these all the time, where I just eventually gave up.