#mm

The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy name. We were told in the Second Commandment we could make no images of this God, and I don't think that means just building idols, I think that means also trying to believe you've captured God in your words, in the Creeds, in the Scriptures. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#believe #building #captured #commandment #could

All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening. ↗

— Alexander Woollcott

#fattening #i #illegal #immoral #like

When you are doing endurance swimming you just need to take in as many carbs as possible to put on as much weight as you can. Basically you can eat whatever you want, which can be quite fun. Everything is guilt-free. ↗

— David Walliams

#carbs #doing #eat #endurance #everything

We must have a relentless commitment to producing a meaningful, comprehensive energy package aimed at conservation, alleviating the burden of energy prices on consumers, decreasing our country's dependency on foreign oil, and increasing electricity grid reliability. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#alleviating #burden #commitment #comprehensive #conservation

No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one. ↗

— Robert Byrne

#committed #ever #good #good book #many

I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who have a whole life based on pretence? ↗

— Tony Gilroy

#between #how #i #i love #idea

We are usually told that democracy originated in ancient Athens—like science, or philosophy, it was a Greek invention. It’s never entirely clear what this is supposed to mean. Are we supposed to believe that before the Athenians, it never really occurred to anyone, anywhere, to gather all the members of their community in order to make joint decisions in a way that gave everyone equal say? ↗

— David Graeber

#democracy #history #politics #equality

Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world. ↗

— Tony Gilroy

#corporate #corporate world #everyone #i #intelligence

If you think about it, episodic filmmaking has not been something that people have really done. ↗

— Tony Gilroy

#been #done #episodic #filmmaking #people

My favorite comedians were Jimmy Durante, George Burns, senior citizens. ↗

— Joseph Bologna

#citizens #comedians #favorite #george #george burns