"If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do it, you know. I could still do it."

-- J. B. Priestley

#Beautiful Quotes #Writing Quotes #Really Beautiful Quotes

“We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.”
“Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.”

Source : 'Art' (1914) pt. 2, ch. 1
“Emotion brings in the dimension of bonding or tuning in: An experience that touches your heart makes the meaning that much more personal.”
“I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.”
“I am not looking to be understood or liked. Like me or not, I don't care. I am an outsider, that is the way I was brought up.”
“The parents pull you aside and say, `I have to give credit where credit is due, you really are sacrificing a lot for the community, and giving,' .. But I'm from here and committed to Homestead and the Steel Valley, and it's a no-brainer to me.”
“They all knew the mothership was coming, they all knew it was a flying saucer, they all knew it came from another planet through the vacuum of space. And so what do they do, to the left of that monument? They set up runway lights. And I'm thinking, if you could travel through the vacuum of space, you don't need runway lights. Runway lights are if you're using air for lift. Aliens would not need air for lift.”
“Some who have been perfectly healthy and able to bear children have avoided this responsibility, and in doing so have resorted to the use of harmful practices and devices resulting often in physical injury to the wife and demoralization to both parties. Some have wondered if the Church would approve such practices. Of course it never has and never could.”

You may also like:

Alfred Hitchcock
Film director
Charlie Chaplin
Actor
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright
Graham Greene
Writer
Groucho Marx
Comedian
Hugh Walpole
Novelist
Jacquetta Hawkes
Archaeologist
Joseph Priestley
Philosopher
W. Somerset Maugham
Playwright