A. C. Bradley Quotes

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.

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

Another occupation might have been better.

I think that painting relates very neatly to inner travel and the exploration of inner worlds. With painting, I always get the impression that you're sort of entering into a shared space.

You have the 20th century wrapping up and everything is moving at this breakneck speed? And then, painting is still walking. It's just a very human activity that takes time.

I think you do kind of slip into a trance when you look at a painting. At least I do.

There are different kinds of concentration required to make a painting, different kinds of being present.

I think, with abstraction, it's easy to fall into a sort of pastiche.

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.

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.

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

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.

As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No ... eight days a week.

I feel like if you play basketbal, you should want to improve all the time. You should never feel like you don't need to improve.

When we see Christ for who He is He then tells us who we are.

Personally, I've made myself a very small window of what I enjoy in this business, which is I love being a big part of the storytelling process.

I liked sports but I never really had the confidence. I was always coordinated and it came easy to me, but I didn't have the confidence to go along with the physical skill.

I had size 12 feet when I was 10, so I thought I was going to be 6 8. My goal was to be able to dunk a basket. I wound up being 6 1 with size 14 feet. I got the raw end of the deal.

Eye's follow energy more than motion.

The spirit of social computing is the concept of leaving value in your wake.

When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are

William Hartnell was one of the great unsung character actors of his time

You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.

I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.

My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called my uncle. He was like a father to me. I was closer to him than I was my father.

The Self has turned out to mean so many things, to mean them so ambiguously, and to be so wavering in its application, that we do not feel encouraged.

There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever.

A woman is never free to bear a child unless she is also free to abort it.

No man or woman can live another's fate

Never name the well from which you will not drink.

For there is no higher religion than the Truth.

... but I believe the divine ones will send other great masters to preach the truth to mankind, and that mankind will always receive them with the cross and the fire and the stones

Whenever I'm out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think, I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.

Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!

Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.

Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I cant say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I dont do it, it plagues me.

I've never ridden a hog. I only have sport bikes. But that's basically how I get around L.A. Because traffic is horrendous.

Death is meaningless unless it happens to someone you know.

As a parent, I want my kids to have an optimistic outlook, and one that has hope, and that makes sense, where good does triumph over evil and it's not cynical, and it's not snarky.

The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.

There was no one around me who didn't work hard.

And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.

Flowers and fruit are only the beginning. In the seed lies the life and the future.

If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it.

I'm at that age where I watch such things with two minds, one that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.

Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.

Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.