"The idolatry of food cuts across class lines. This can be seen in the public's toleration of a level of cruelty in meat production that it would tolerate nowhere else. If someone inflicts pain on an animal for visual, aural, or sexual gratification, we consider him a monster, and the law makes at least a token effort at punishment. If someone's goal is to put the "product" in his mouth? ..."

-- Brian Reynolds Myers

#Pain Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Animal Quotes

“I won't sit here and say I've never had a pimple, but I try to have a really great diet, you know, lots of vegetables and fish. And I think stress plays a huge part too.”
“[Ritual] dwells in an invisible reality and gives this reality a vocabulary, props, costume, gesture, scenery. Ritual makes things separate, sets them apart from ordinary affairs and thoughts. Rituals need not be solemn, but they are formalized, stylized, extraordinary, and artificial. In the name of ritual, we can do anything. We can do astonishing acts. In the end, ritual gives us assurance about the unification of things.”
“Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.”
“The second challenge is to make sure that, growing up in this culture, they have a healthy view of life and God and Scripture. So, that's my other challenge. So, finding that balance is certainly no easy task but it can be very fulfilling. So, that's part of what we talk about in this book.”

Source : "'Courageous' filmmaker Alex Kendrick branches out with a new book, a new Erwin Brothers comedy and a new production company". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.
“There were some films I refused because the feminist aspect was a bit wonky.”
“Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.”
“And the last thought he had that morning as he closed his eyes was: I hope the tornado hit the moose.”
“O amazement of things-even the least particle!”

You may also like:

David Peace
Writer
Edward Jay Epstein
Journalist
Hans Fallada
Writer
Heinrich BÃ¶ll
Writer
Lynne Truss
Writer
Mary MacLane
Writer
Steve Stern
Author
Curtis White
Essayist
Kenan Malik
Writer