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“It doesn't matter if the world is pulling you down. With Christ you have everything.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“What distinguishes genocide from murder, and even from acts of political murder that claim as many victims, is the intent. The crime is wanting to make a people extinct. The idea is the crime.”
Source : Philip Gourevitch (2015). “We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Picador Classic”, p.142, Pan Macmillan
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“It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.”
Source : Interview with David Salle, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 9, 2013.
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“...with the power of compassion there is nothing that cannot be accomplished.”
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“I used to like to break into other people's houses and sit in their rooms. I found it very comforting to be in someone's empty house.”
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“In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.”
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“Sometimes I imagine a surveyor 100 years from now reading my plan, retracing my boundaries, and finding the monuments that I set. It's an honor to make a mark in history like that.”
Source : "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.
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“It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. If he is more than a popular story-teller it may take humanity a generation to absorb and grow accustomed to the new geography with which the scientist or artist presents us. Even then, perhaps only the more imaginative and literate may accept him. Subconsciously the genius is feared as an image breaker; frequently he does not accept the opinions of the mass, or man's opinion of himself.”