"I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out."

-- Derek Jacobi

#Teacher Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Parent Quotes

“Wyatt Earp and the Holy Grail: The Tale of the Three Gates is a look at humankind's relationship to the elements which surround them. Oftentimes, these elements encroach on them in a way that is not normal.”

Source : Source: xstuckinthepastx.blogspot.com
“My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.”

Source : The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 1998.
“So it follows that those who have reason have freedom to will or not to will, although this freedom is not equal in all of them. [...] human souls are more free when they persevere in the contemplation of the mind of God, less free when they descend to the corporeal, and even less free when they are entirely imprisoned in earthly flesh and blood.”

Source : Boethius, David R Slavitt (2008). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.150, Harvard University Press
“Friends are connected by their souls, you can't just rinse something out that has been deeply instilled into your sou”
“God is what man finds that is divine in himself. It is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and the farthest point to which man can stretch himself.”
“Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of.”
“Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a kiss of texture, whether of cover cloth, glazed jacket, or flexible paperback.”
“The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no one in particular.”

Source : Joanne Greenberg (2009). “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel”, p.70, Macmillan

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