"It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined."

-- Alan Bennett

#May Quotes #Mood Quotes #Used Quotes

“When I say God it is poetry and not theology. Nothing that any theologian has written about God has helped me much, but everything the poets have written about flowers and birds and skies and seas and saviors of the race, and God - whoever He may be - has at one time or another reached my soul!...The theologians gather dust upon the shelves of my library but the poets are stained with my fingers and blotted by my tears.”
“I believe that God wants us to show respect.”
“Mrs. Wiggs was a philosopher, and the sum and substance of her philosophy lay in keeping the dust off her rose-colored spectacles.”

Source : Alice Hegan Rice (2015). “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch”, p.3, University Press of Kentucky
“The sinner's prayer has sent more people to Hell than all the bars in America.”
“Intemperance is a hydra with a hundred heads. She never stalks abroad unaccompanied with impurity, anger, and the most infamous profligacies.”
“Editing is not merely a method of the junction of separate scenes or pieces, but is a method that controls the 'psychological guidance' of the spectator.”

Source : "Watch: 5 Master Editing Techniques That Appear in Everything From ‘Psycho’ to ‘Hugo’" by Casey Cipriani, www.indiewire.com. October 9, 2013.
“It was great. I mean, it's a blast directing underwater stuff.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“We make our discoveries through our mistakes: we watch one another's success: and where there is freedom to experiment there is hope to improve.”

Source : Arthur Quiller-Couch (2016). “On The Art of Reading”, p.8, Youcanprint

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