A. C. Bradley Quotes

It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents.

All gods are one god.

Infuse your life with action.

I identify with this guy's frustration and inability to control his fury at moments. I even identify with the way that this guy covers up a lot with humour. So yeah, it's interesting.

Being an actor, you always feel like you're swimming upstream. People are going, "No, they don't like you. They don't like the way you look. They don't like how old you are."

Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character.

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices

Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.

In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced.

Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it.

I can only think of a handful of artists that can make a funny painting or a funny sculpture without it feeling coined in someway.

What gets celebrated gets replicated.

Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.

I should know, for I am Morgaine le Fay, priestess of the Isle of Avalon, where the ancient religion of the Mother Goddess is born.

Art is not entertainment. Art is not luxury goods. Art is culture. It is you and me.

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.

Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.

If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man.

With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.

And so, perhaps, the truth winds somewhere between the road to Glastonbury, Isle of the Priests, and the road to Avalon, lost forever in the mists of the Summer Sea.

The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.

I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.

Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated.

Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.

On one occasion I shared a bed with about seven other people, but we were all having a party overnight

When the playing is over, one can sense that one's youth has been spent playing a game, and now both the game and youth are gone.

Fear is a way of not allowing yourself to choose freely what you will do next; a way of letting your body's reflexes, not the needs of your mind, choose for you.

Intuition is more than knowledge, and truth comes pure from the heart.

Our submission defines our authority

Life's complicated and people do things for a lot of reasons. I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don't believe that anymore.

I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan.

People always say, "Could it have been a show about a conservative Republican administration?" No! Nobody wants to watch that! Watching Republicans flirt makes people queasy!

You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.

If you would have the message of the gods to direct your life, look for that which repeats ... It comes again and again until you have made it part of your soul and your enduring spirit.

Well, so it must be, for as man saw reality, so it became.

And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference.

You don't want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything

Cal Ripken is steady, he focuses on his job, and he's a good guy.

Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.

This election ain't no stinkin' TV show.

New methods always look better than old ones. Neural nets are better than logistic regression, support vector machines are better than neural nets, etc.

To win more medals at Beijing is just fantastic, and British cycling has come a huge way in the last few years.

Every performance is completely its own thing.

Breaking news is a thing that's on TV all day. 10 or 15 years ago, breaking news would get everybody around the table because it was going to be something huge.

For a comedy to work, magic has to happen.

London has what it takes to host the greatest sporting show on earth [on the 2012 Olympic bid

I loved the college experience of studying.