#ra

The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals. ↗

— James Thurber

#demonstrable #dog #fun #got #laughable

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#also #contrary #deprivation #expression #feeling

Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences is certainly in accord with all that the sciences have revealed since those debates of the nineteenth century. ↗

— Arthur Peacocke

#century #certainly #creator #debates #emphasis

He who fears is literally delivered to destruction. ↗

— Howard Thurman

#destruction #fears #literally #who

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#most #praise #rather #ruined #saved

Every time you say yes to a film there's a certain percentage of your yes that has to do with the director, a certain percentage to do with the story, a certain percentage with the character, the location, etc. ↗

— Guy Pearce

#character #director #etc #every #every time

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#did #i #most #soldier #survived

A movie that gets a PG-13 rating can show someone running down a street killing 27 people. And there are no repercussions. ↗

— Guy Pearce

#gets #killing #movie #people #rating

Funny enough, if you are looking at people these days who are putting Botox in their face and getting all sorts of plastic surgery, we look at them and go, I can tell you've had Botox. I can tell you've had plastic surgery. You look really strange to me. But no one's saying anything. We're just accepting the fact that they're strange-looking. ↗

— Guy Pearce

#anything #botox #days #enough #face

I always think the really unfortunate thing about the Australian film industry is its lack of momentum. And I don't mean this in a derogatory way. I'm always wanting it to pick up momentum, and I'm wondering if that's even possible. ↗

— Guy Pearce

#always #australian #australian film #derogatory #even