#nation

Well, I am from India and I wanted to make films in English for the international market in India. So that was really the main thing, and then of course economically it was cheaper to make films in India. ↗

— Ismail Merchant

#cheaper #course #economically #english #films

Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it. ↗

— Duane Michals

#head #interesting #little #says #then

Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself. ↗

— Arthur Middleton

#church #conditioned #convenient #form #himself

Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live. ↗

— John Milton

#forget #her #how #live #nations

Imagine that Jesus is calling you today. He extends a second invitation to accept His Father's love. And maybe you answer, "Oh, I know that. It's old hat." And God answers, 'No, that's what you don't know. You don't know how much I love you. The moment you think you understand is the moment you do not understand. I am God, not man. You tell others about Me - your words are glib. My words are written in the blood of My only Son. The next time you preach about My love with such obnoxious familiarity, I may come and blow your whole prayer meeting apart. Did you know that every time you tell Me you love Me, I say thank you? ↗

— Brennan Manning

#love #prayer #imagination

To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space. ↗

— William Joyce

#nicholas-st-north #north #ombric #pretending #rise-of-the-guardians

It is said the sesta is one of the only gifts the Europeans brought to South America, but I imagine the Brazilians could have figured out how to sleep in the afternoon without having to endure centuries of murder and enslavement. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#imagination

Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#toronto #toronto-literature #imagination

For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable in anticipatory excitement to what I imagine is felt by an athlete warming up for a competition, a mountain climber preparing for the ascent: it is the beginning of a process whose outcome is unknown, one that promises the thrill and elation of success but may as easily end in bitter disappointment. Committed readers realize at a certain point that literature is where we have learned a good part of the little we know about living. ↗

— Edith Grossman Why Translation Matters

#literature-in-translation #imagination

That was always my fear, that perhaps books would lead me astray, teaching me about a life that didn’t match reality. ↗

— Stefanos Livos

#imagination #literature #reality #stories #teach