"What it sees there isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament."

-- Christopher Isherwood

#Expression Quotes #Faces Quotes #Predicaments Quotes

“In a story, you can turn to the front and begin again and everyone lives once more. That doesn't work in real life. And I love my real people the most.”
“What matters most in a child’s development, they say, is not how much information we can stuff into her brain in the first few years. What matters, instead, is whether we are able to help her develop a very different set of qualities, a list that includes persistence, self-control, curiosity, conscientiousness, grit, and self-confidence. Economists refer to these as noncognitive skills, psychologists call them personality traits, and the rest of us sometimes think of them as character.”
“I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results not only from the provision that no law shall be made respecting the establishment or free exercise of religion, but from that also which reserves to the States the powers not delegated to the United States. Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise or to assume authority in any religious discipline has been delegated to the General Government. It must then rest with the States.”
“There are two types of girls: those that can make cheap clothes look expensive and those that make designer clothes look cheap.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 20, 2011
“I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.”

Source : Interview with Shawn Conner, www.vancouversun.com. December 4, 2013.
“There is one story left, one road: that it is. And on this road there are very many signs that, being, is uncreated and imperishable, whole, unique, unwavering, and complete.”

Source : Frag. B 8.1-4, quoted by Simplicius, "Commentary on the Physics", 144,
“Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proportion to the blow he has received. [Lat., Ponamus nimios gemitus: flagrantior aequo Non debet dolor esse viri, nec vulnere major.]”
“I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns”

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