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“A church is not a church when the passion for souls is gone.”
Source : Lee Roberson (2000). “Double-Breasted”, p.18, Sword of the Lord Publishers
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“The fact is that comedy is actually too serious to be taken seriously. It may be that comedy touches such deep emotions that people feel better if they can just dismiss it as trivial. Just take a big belly laugh. I have watched people laughing, and for a moment they look-and are-absolutely helpless. Vulnerability. You can be assaulted while you are laughing.”
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“Because jurors have an extraordinary amount of power over the situation and of the people and the story in front of them, they tend to pay pretty intense attention to what's happening.”
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“He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why.”
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“Do the steps that you've been shown, by everyone you've ever known, until the dance becomes your very own.”
Source : Song: For A Dancer, Album: Late for the Sky, 1974
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“It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free.”
Source : Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.64, Macmillan
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“I felt the question of the afterlife was the black hole of the personal universe: something for which substantial proof of existence had been offered but which had not yet been explored in the proper way by scientists and philosophers.”
Source : "Raymond Moody, Man Behind ‘Near-Death Experience’ Ponders The Afterlife" by Piet Levy, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2012.
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“I always wanted to do my best. I got nothing free—I had to work hard.”