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Authors
Phil Vischer
"VeggieTales is something that, on paper, makes no sense at all. It is a series of children's videos where limbless, talking vegetables act out Bible stories. Try raising money with that pitch." --
Source : "The Philosophical Implications of Talking Vegetables". Speech at Yale University, March 02, 2005.
Phil Vischer
#Children Quotes
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“The reference-points pictures should be shot and taken off one's system. But don't follow that always, create you own points”
“I think that the justices were totally answering the way that they should. I think that the senators, as best I could tell, for the most part, Democrat and Republican, respected that”
“The Romans dominated Egypt for four hundred years, from the time of Augustus (30 BC to 395 AD).”
“The I is the soul, which endures.”
“In White Summer, Joelle Biele exhibits a Roethke-like affinity with nature and natures creatures. At times a miniaturist, Biele constructs exquisite addresses to a heron, cicada, spider, catalpa tree, mockingbird, snail, cormorant, and others. These pitch-perfect poems are written with a delicate, meticulous attention to craft and music. Like the joy she takes in her subjects, this collection is a joy to read.”
“Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.”
“The spacious firmament on high, And all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim.”
“It was tricky [to write about Israelis], because everyone has an opinion about the Arab - Israeli conflict, and when I first started writing these stories, I was working for an Arab - Israeli human rights group. It was during the Second Intifada. It was this totally violent and intense time, and I think there's a part of me where I don't know how to write about that situation without getting my politics out of my messages, and that's something that was important for me not to do in this book.”
