Lines Quotes - Page 57

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.

I was in George Martin's studio in Amsterdam and he was telling me, 'They come in here and it takes them three days to do a bass line.' Well I'm not from that era.

Attempt to be creative for the joy it brings… Select something like music, dance, sculpture, or poetry. Being creative will help you enjoy life. It engenders a spirit of gratitude. It develops latent talent, sharpens your capacity to reason, to act, and to find purpose in life. It dispels loneliness and heartache. It gives a renewal, a spark of enthusiasm, and zest for life.

These are some of the characteristics of the state of mind which the creation and appreciation of haiku demand: Selflessness, Loneliness, Grateful Acceptance, Wordlessness, Non-intellectuality, Contradictoriness, Humor, Freedom, Non-morality, Simplicity, Materiality, Love, and Courage.

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing is more prevalent than the fear of one another.

Prayer finds its source in God's holiness and it is at the same time our response to this holiness.

The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line.

A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they are.

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

Once we repossess a sense of our own holiness, we will recover the sense of the holiness of the world... Only in this way will we once again become aware that our destiny and the destiny of nature are one and the same.

The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very private kind of activity. But it's done to be shared. It is comforting and consoling. From the reactions I get I can see I'm not doing something strange.

Reality is made up of circles but we see straight lines.

The steeper the mountain the harder the climb the better the view from the finish line ;)

God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.

Where there is faith there is an awareness of holiness.

Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.

A snick by Jack Hobbs is a sort of disturbance of a cosmic orderliness.

Ugliness without tact is horrible.

When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.

Holiness is doing God's will with a smile.

Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.

There was all this loneliness in my cartoons and people would say, "Gee, these characters are so lonely, disconnected, depressed." And I'd say, 'Yeah well, that's not me. I'm just interested in that because I think it makes a funny drawing.' But later I understood it was me in many respects; my hand was doing it ahead of the head's understanding.

Success definitely brings on loneliness. People think you're lucky, that you have everything. They think you can go anywhere and do anything, but that's not the point. One hungers for the basic stuff.