#mo

If I stopped touring tomorrow, it wouldn't change my life. ↗

— John Oates

#i #life #my life #stopped #tomorrow

The script was always the most important thing to me and I loved the script. For one thing, I've always admired trees. I just worship them. Think what trees have witnessed, what history, such as living through the Civil War, yet they still survive. ↗

— Kim Novak

#always #civil #civil war #history #i

The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere. ↗

— Kim Novak

#begun #cans #cared #could #did

We only did probably two, three takes on every scene we did, at the most. ↗

— Kim Novak

#every #most #only #probably #scene

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work. ↗

— Michael Novak

#democracy #designed #each #institutions #noise

Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society. ↗

— Michael Novak

#atheists #civil #civil society #conscience #consciences

In God's eyes, there's not before and after. Every moment of time is simultaneous to God. ↗

— Michael Novak

#before #every #eyes #god #moment

In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny. ↗

— Michael Novak

#condition #default #free #history #human

Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures. ↗

— Michael Novak

#awful #bishop #character #even #every

The universe moves in the direction of Liberty. ↗

— Michael Novak

#liberty #moves #universe