"In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly."

-- Jack Dee

#Swimming Quotes #Feet Quotes #Bricks Quotes

“We don't really have a movie industry; we have a trailer industry. The movie guys make five minutes worth of stuff to get people in the theatre, and eighty-five minutes of filler.”
“I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.”
“My instrument is the studio. When I play my instrument, I'm creating music using the studio. All the other instruments serve it.”
“In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us.”
“Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.”

Source : Vernon Lee (1907). “Hortus Vitae: And Limbo”
“I come from a newspaper background, so maybe Im attuned to current events.”
“For the blockbusters, people were always telling me that if you write female protagonists, the boys won't go, so you have to put the boys' stuff in it to get everybody. I write for people from 8 to 80, and that's not easy.”
“It is the religious impulse which supplies the cohesive force which unifies a society and a culture... A society which has lost its religion becomes sooner or later a society which has lost its culture.”

Source : Christopher Dawson, Robert Royal (2009). “Enquiries Into Religion and Culture (The Works of Christopher Dawson)”, p.94, CUA Press

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