We are all weak, finite, simple human beings, standing in the need of prayer. None need it so much as those who think they are strong, those who know it not, but are deluded by self-sufficiency.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Only an obstinate prejudice about this period (which I will presently try to account for) could blind us to a certain change which comes over the merely literary texts as we pass from the Middle Ages to the sixteenth century.

C.S. Lewis

Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.

Yann Martel

A belief which does not spring from a conviction in the emotions is no belief at all.

Evelyn Scott

So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.

Matthew Henry

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Sydney J. Harris

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.

Elvis Presley

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

Jeremy Collier

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

John Ruskin

I'd love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.

Rihanna

This house was our dream-the gardens, the study, even the swimming pool. Even though I can't see John when I wake up in the morning, I can always feel him here with me.

Shirley Knight