"Writing adds up to the conscience of our times."

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Source : "Art in a Word". Documentary by Vera Baghiroli, QOOB TV, July 22, 2008.

Martin Firrell

#Writing Quotes #Add Quotes #Conscience Quotes

“For those who use their intelligence and their study as a weapon, the Rosary is most effective. Because that apparently monotonous way of beseeching Our Lady as children do their Mother, can destroy every seed of vainglory and pride.”
“I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldnâ€™t be read at school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange stupid things that are said about poetry and its place in our lives, I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy. A tough life needs a tough language â€“ and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers â€“ a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isnâ€™t a hiding place. It is a finding place.”
“At the start of my career, when I used to toss and turn at night, I was fighting that feeling and wanting to go to sleep. Now I know that's normal, so I'll just get up and watch TV or something. I know it's just my subconscious mind getting ready for a game.”
“I like to get that roll and pitch. I really like to take the car out on the highway for a spin.”
“We must pass a national energy policy to continue our successes in the War on Terrorism.”
“I just do whatever I feel. Whatever the beat makes me say, I do that and I run with that.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I think I have the best of both worlds because I am a woman, but I'm also a tomboy.”

Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com
“It pleased God to make one nation the medium of all His communications with mankind: This the nation of the Jews has done to a considerable degree in all ages As civilization extended, they by one means or another became most wonderfully dispersed through all countries; and at this day they are almost literally everywhere, the most conspicuous, and in the eye of reason and religion, the most respectable nation on the face of the earth.”

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