"Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ."

“To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.”

“You can be special without being extraordinary.”

Source : Nancy Werlin (2011). “Extraordinary”, p.145, Penguin

“For my own films, I would like to see 'Bullet in the Head' remastered. The original cut was actually almost three hours.”

Source : Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. August 15, 2007.

“I can imagine there is going to come a time when someone will do 13 hours of a story without breaks.”

“How much simpler it would be all around if you could put your mind in a cast, like a broken ankle, and elicit murmurings of sympathy from other people instead of skepticism (“You can’t really be feeling as bad as all that”) and in some cases outright hostility (“Maybe if you stopped thinking about yourself so much ”).”

“Have great, secret, big, fat hopes for yourself.”

“I don t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.”

Source : Dashiell Hammett (2010). “The Maltese Falcon”, p.61, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

“Jesus will turn your sorrow into joy. One can only imagine the shock and bewilderment the Apostles felt when the Lord told them he must go away. Though they could not understand it at the time, his departure was for their benefit. The same is true of the unexpected setbacks and tragedies we experience in this life...When I consider the times when I have been confounded by events that seemed so contrary to what I thought God wanted for me, I should be mindful that they were permitted by the Lord's inscrutable providence for my own good, as difficult as that might be to fathom.”