"Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time."

-- V. S. Pritchett

#Eye Quotes #Mind Quotes #Cinema Quotes

“The greatest curse that can befall a free people, is civil war.”

Source : Alexander H. Stephens “A”
“I pray the breviary every morning. I like to pray with the psalms. Then, later, I celebrate Mass. I pray the Rosary. What I really prefer is adoration in the evening, even when I get distracted and think of other things, or even fall asleep praying. In the evening then, between seven and eight o'clock, I stay in front of the Blessed Sacrament for an hour in adoration. But I pray mentally even when I am waiting at the dentist or at other times of the day.”
“For me, the American Dream was to go racing; for others, it's to pursue whatever their goals may be.”
“True knowledge comes only through suffering.”
“The diversity in the human family should be the cause of love and harmony, as it is in music where many different notes blend together in the making of a perfect chord.”
“I could never love where I could not respect.”
“IF you Salute your work,You do not have to salute anybody. IF you pollute your work,You have to salute everybody.”
“I think it's a very valuable thing for a doctor to learn how to do research, to learn how to approach research, something there isn't time to teach them in medical school. They don't really learn how to approach a problem, and yet diagnosis is a problem; and I think that year spent in research is extremely valuable to them.”

You may also like:

Angus Wilson
Novelist
Anthony Powell
Novelist
Elizabeth Bowen
Novelist
Ivan Turgenev
Novelist
John Wain
Poet
Mary McCarthy
Author
Roy Fuller
Writer
William Trevor
Novelist
Frank O'Connor
Writer