"Well, good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract. So automatically you're getting closer to potentially divine sources of interest because it is abstract. It's one of the only ways that a film actor can express himself in the abstract and have audiences still go along for the ride. They don't contend it. They accept it, that they're going to go places that are a bit more of the imagination, a bit more out there, and that's more and more where I like to dance."

-- Nicolas Cage

#Intelligent Quotes #Roots Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“There is a proverb that says, â€˜Talk so that I may know who you are.â€™ But I say, â€˜Show me your eyes and I will know who you are.”

Source : Nawal El Saadawi (2013). “Walking through Fire: The Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi”, p.176, Zed Books Ltd.
“I think fun is an important part of the entertainment industry, and it should be. Anybody who's not incorporating some of that into their work needs to take a break, go away, and have an attitude adjustment.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 7, 2010.
“...Summer nights held a special kind of loneliness that gave rise to strange imaginings. One walked the beach alone and thought too much.”

Source : Robert Ludlum (2012). “The Aquitaine Progression: A Novel”, p.64, Bantam
“If everyone would take only according to his needs and would leave the surplus to the needy, no one would be rich, no one poor, no one in misery.”
“Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.”
“I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.”
“The death penalty serves no one. It doesn't serve the victims. It doesn't serve prevention. It's truly all about retribution....There comes a time when you have to ask if a penalty that is so permanent can be available in such an imperfect system. The only guarantee against executing the innocent is to do away with the death penalty.”
“Man's want of original righteousness and of holy affections toward God, and the corruption of his moral nature and his bias toward evil is called depravity”

Source : Henry Clarence Thiessen (1979). “Lectures in Systematic Theology”, p.191, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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