"In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there."

-- John Banville

#Writing Quotes #Self Quotes #Order Quotes

“God's love has a width, length, height, and depth, but we will never reach the end of it. Our capacity to experience God's love will be exhausted long before God's capacity to give it is strained. The picture of having Christ dwell inside us by faith presents us with compelling and comforting possibilities. What Christ does in us and through us will always be 'exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think.'”
“With all her masculine vigour and glory, Greece fell, gradually atrophied, because one half of her had been, of set purpose, intellectually and politically paralyzed.”
“Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.”

Source : Moses Mendelssohn (2011). “Moses Mendelssohn: Writings on Judaism, Christianity, and the Bible”, p.87, UPNE
“I had started by imitating a parrot, which is unusual, in that a parrot is supposed to imitate you. By taking the initiative you allow the parrot no alternative but to be itself, which proves again that attack is often the best defence.”
“The film industry needs to find a way to bring audiences to movie theaters. It's more of a technical trick than a revolution.”
“I had not starred in an independent film and it's about a woman who owned a hair salon.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.”
“The adventure of composition is a mystery. The muse has her ways, she hides from you, comes for you in the middle of the night, at midday, at dawn. You must believe wholeheartedly in this divine power. Its an elusive gift that can appear at any time, anywhere. Artists are in awe of it.”

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