#Work Quotes
“If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.”
“I love swimming in the darker seas, so even if I play a noble guy (well, like Lincoln for instance) I am pre-disposed to try and show the conflict; the regret; the less-than-perfect choices that any human faces. That's what I like and it seems to be what the camera likes to see me do.”
“Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.”
“I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.”
Source : Interview with Shawn Conner, www.vancouversun.com. December 4, 2013.
“Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?”
“It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.”
“words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.”
“If you can't say something nice... about an overrated, ungrateful European nation that would have been wiped off the face of the earth twice in the twentieth century if it weren't for the United States and which has given nothing to the culture in the past two hundred years but whine and cheese, both of which are made better in California, then don't say anything at all!”
Bodhidharma Biographer
Hakuin Ekaku
Hsu Yun
Huangbo Xiyun
Huineng
Linji Yixuan
Sengcan Author
Shenhui
Wei Wu Wei Philosopher
