#ink

Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#beings #billion #course #culture #deny

I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#christian #classical #creation #creator #distinction

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#become #business #i #i think #shame

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#art #film #grow #grow up #i

By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#creating #focus #focus groups #greater #groups

I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#art #art form #been #biggest #century

The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#believe #blame #convenient #everything #generally

There is no point trying to figure out who is guilty or not at un-balancing the planet. I think we need to figure out and solve the problems together and not isolate from each other. ↗

— Sarah Polley

#figure #guilty #i #i think #isolate

I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#girl #i #i think #myself #think

I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#any #belongs #caesar #fault #finding