#script

I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#few #get #great #i #loads

You stick to the script, the script is Bible. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#script #stick #you

My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City. ↗

— Philip Morrison

#atomic bomb #bomb #city #description #effect

As an actor, you really want to respect and honor the script. You want to try to be in the moment and you also realize that you're one part of a bigger picture and when they call action, you have your dance. ↗

— Carrie-Anne Moss

#actor #also #bigger #bigger picture #call

I had a feeling about directing Cocoon II: The Return. At first I wasn't too interested because it was a sequel. Then I read the script and was excited by the relationships and its mystic quality. ↗

— Daniel Petrie

#because #cocoon #directing #excited #feeling

To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#simile #stubbornness #scripture

Saint Augustine … insisted that scripture taught nothing but charity. Whatever the biblical author may have intended, any passage that seemed to preach hatred and was not conducive to love must be interpreted allegorically and made to speak of charity. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#charity #christianity #saint-augustine #scripture #life

If God is the author of life, there must be a script. ↗

— Ravi Zacharias

#life #script #life

On the philosophical level, both Buddhism and modern science share a deep suspicion of any notion of absolutes, whether conceptualize as a transcendent being, as an eternal, unchanging principle such as soul, or as a fundamental substratum of reality. ... In the Buddhist investigation of reality, at least in principle, empirical evidence should triumph over scriptural authority, no matter how deeply venerated a scripture may be. ~ 14th Dalai Lama in his talk to the Society for Neuroscience in 2005 in Washington. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#evidence #science #scripture #science

In one of his darker moments, the irony started him laughing and he couldn't stop, and the sounds that came from him, before finally tapering into sobs, were so far from mirth they might have been the forced inversion of laughter-like a soul pulled inside out to reveal its rawest meats. ↗

— Laini Taylor

#beautiful-description #despair #emotions #karou #beauty