"My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while framing a better shot."

-- A. A. Gill

#Death Quotes #Father Quotes #Directors Quotes

“February makes a bridge and March breaks it.”
“In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.”
“I knew a book of mine was finished when I was in intensive care.”
“The present is an infinitesimal between two infinites. 'Tis a line (a thing without breadth or thickness) moving across the surface of Eternity . The present is no more, by the time you have said, This is present.”

Source : "The Lady Paramount". Book by Henry Harland, Chapter 7, 1902.
“Do not depend upon the morality of a person until you have seen him behave while in anger.”
“I'm going to preach there was no Fall because there was nothing to fall from, and no Redemption because there was no Fall, and no Judgment because there wasn't the first two. Nothing matters but that Jesus was a liar.”
“To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.”
“Godliness has 'promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.' But the only way one can enter into godliness is by turning to God as a repentant sinner and receiving the Saviour He has provided in the Gospel. Therefore the crying need of our degenerate times is for a revival of true old-fashioned, Christ- centered, Bible preaching that will call upon all men everywhere to repent in view of that coming day when God will judge the world in righteousness by His Risen Son.”

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