"I was writing this music for the people that sit in the back pew of the church. People that do come, but it's not quite in their hearts."

“I am the form and I am the hollow, the thrust and the contour”

Source : Dame Barbara Hepworth (1970). “A Pictorial Autobiography”

“The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.”

“We must allow ourselves to think, we must dare to think, even though we fail. It is in the nature of things that we always fail, because we suddenly find it impossible to order our thoughts, because the process of thinking requires us to consider every thought there is, every possible thought. Fundamentally we have always failed, like all the others, whoever they were, even the greatest minds. At some point, they suddenly failed and their system collapsed, as is proved by their writings, which we admire because they venture farthest into failure. To think is to fail, I thought.”

Source : Thomas Bernhard (2013). “Extinction: A Novel”, p.187, Vintage

“Atheism has become a major threat to the church. New Atheists tend to be articulate and belligerent. They are aggressively engaging in "atheist evangelism," determined to stamp out every vestige of belief in God, which they insist is not only "stupid" but "wicked."”

“Feminism is not a fad. It's not like Angry Birds. Although it does involve a lot of angry birds. Bad example.”

“It was tough to try to be serious in front of Halle Berry and Pierce Brosnan with all this stuff in my face. There's never been a character that's looked this extreme.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them”

“My father spoke with his hands. He was deaf. His voice was in his hands. And his hands contained his memories.”