"I think in this country we're committed to developing plays, and many plays I've seen have been rewritten too much. The scenes are tight, the play ends at the right time, you know exactly what the scene is about, but it seems flat; you can almost see that too many hands have been on the play. The individual voice is gone."

-- A. R. Gurney

#Country Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Hands Quotes

“If someone gave me the chance to create something, I put myself into it. I just want to try to do something that will last forever and that won't leave people saying, 'Gee, it could have been better, it could've been this, it could've been that.”

Source : "Hand-Crafted Voices With 'Futurama' Actor Billy West". Interview with Charles Webb, www.mtv.com. June 20, 2011.
“In our private lives in the last decade, we've gone through enormous change that has affected everything, from the way we do business to how we view intelligence and attention. We have to rethink it all in a more interactive, networked, and collaborative way.”
“Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.”

Source : Josef Albers (2006). “Interaction of Color”, p.70, Yale University Press
“...But the problem is, people tend to assign you the role of the person you are at your worst, you know?”
“In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.”

Source : Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.193, Baker Books
“To feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end.”
“Let us never forget that if we wish to die like the Saints we must live like them. Let us force ourselves to imitate their virtues, in particular humility and charity.”
“Iâ€™m just doing what i like and people can just enjoy it. Thereâ€™s nothing more than that.”

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