"The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of that."

-- Pat Paulsen

#Running Quotes #Government Quotes #Half Quotes

“How fatally the entire want of humor cripples the mind.”

Source : Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”
“The relationship I have with my kids is beautiful.”
“Nowadays people sell millions of records that can't sing.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.”

Source : Kenneth B. Clark (1988). “Prejudice and Your Child”, p.6, Wesleyan University Press
“Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life. Its mode has often been swift and coarse and ruthless, beyond art and beyond established civilization. It has engaged in warfare against the established heritage, against the bonds of pioneer existence. Its objective --the unconscious objective of a disunited people --has seemed to be that of creating fresh bonds, a new unity, the semblance of a society and the rounded completion of an American type.”
“Our Lord humbled without humiliation His lofty station which yet could not be humbled, and condescends to His servants, with a condescension ineffable and incomprehensible. God being perfect becomes perfect man, and brings to perfection the newest of all new things (cf. Eccles 1:10), the only new thing under the sun, through which the boundless might of God is manifested. For what greater thing is there than that God should become man?”
“The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.”
“Night after night, through years of performing and directing, I've stood in awe of the audience, of its capacity for response. As if by magic, masks fall away, faces become vulnerable, receptive. Filmgoers do not defend their emotions, rather they open to the storyteller in ways even their lovers never know, welcoming laughter, tears, terror, rage, compassion, passion, love, hate--the ritual often exhausts them.”

Source : Robert McKee (2010). “Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting”, p.7, Harper Collins

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