K. Taylor Quotes
If you wish to assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief.
He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.
But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.
May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!
It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.
In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.
Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?" Is worse to man than worse necessity.
But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.
There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.
I also know what looks good before the camera, how to move the camera, and how to get a story on the screen.
Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
Nothing can permanently please, which doesn't contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.
It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.
Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.
Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.
If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic formula.
My wife is amazing. She had to know she was getting into a heap of trouble when we met.
I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job being a parent, and as it turns out, being young really helps you keep up.
You have to lead people to get excited and be passionate and be activated by what you do.
Honestly all the sweets and bad stuff on set don't really call to me because I'm working so much. I've trained myself to stay away from sugar.
Once upon a time, the sky knew the weight of angel armies on the move, and the wind blew infernal with the fire of their wings.
Words are everything to me. Words can build you up and feel so good. On the flip side, words can absolutely demolish you.
My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.
There is the past, and there is the future. The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other. We live poised on that second as it's hurtling forward-toward what?
The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.
