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The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
God
Spiritual
Bible
Word
Few
Nothing
Christian
Others
Favorite
Must
Obeyed
Select
Perfection
Exclusion
Well
Make
Passages
Understood
Than
Shortest
Less
Whole
Route
I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.
Jimmy Carter
Life
Women
Equality
Church
Signs
Men
Men And Women
Hair
Believe
Think
Complete
Say
Those
Wear
Hats
Adorn
Color
Between
New
Like
Always
Passages
Testament
Times
New Testament
Modern-Day
Paul
Themselves
Should
Things
Jesus
Apply
About 100 things that your kid will do that will surprise you and break your heart and it will be a combination of fact based therapy, medically advised kinds of passages accompanied by celebrity anecdotes and just some funny stuff to lighten the load.
Alan Thicke
Funny
You
Heart
Will
Funny Stuff
Kid
Anecdotes
Kinds
Some
About
Fact
Lighten
Combination
Stuff
Advised
Passages
Accompanied
Surprise
Celebrity
Just
Break
Your
Therapy
Based
Things
Medically
Load
The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that reach the most intimate areas of our psyche without being tried by prejudices or influences of any kind.
Andrea Bocelli
Music
Nature
Emotions
Strong
Our
Intimate
Kind
Tried
Area
Mysterious
Along
Reach
Most
Within
Without
Passages
Any
Psyche
Being
Moves
Influences
Us
Much
Prejudices
Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.
Cameron Diaz
You
Bible
Carry
Over
Like
Read
Passages
Go
Script
Your
Actor
Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.
Charles Van Doren
Happiness
Me
You
Remember
Ethics
Too
Some
Selection
Aristotle
Idea
Well
Read
Passages
His
Years
Years Ago
May
Describe
Portion
To be honest, there are parts of 'How Literature Saved My Life' that began as interviews. Someone was telling me that they think the book sounds very phonic: that it sounds like me speaking. And I don't think it's a coincidence that there are six to ten passages that I cadged from various interviews that I did post-'Reality Hunger'.
David Shields
Life
Me
Book
My Life
To Be Honest
Think
Saved
Interviews
Hunger
Telling
Someone
Ten
Various
Like
Parts
How
Passages
Sounds
Began
Very
Did
Six
Literature
Speaking
Honest
Coincidence
As you suggested I have in the following disputed certain passages, trusting you will do me the justice either to modify the same or add a note in the new edition stating that I dispute,' etc.
Denis Kearney
Me
You
Justice
Will
Add
Stating
Following
New
Edition
Passages
Trusting
Same
Either
Etc
Note
Modify
Certain
Dispute
Disputed
Suggested
I now rely on a scanner, which reproduces the passages I want to cite, and then I keep my own comments on those books in a separate file so that I will never confuse the two again.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Will
Own
Confuse
Books
Those
Cite
My Own
Rely
Never
Passages
Comments
Want
Which
Again
Then
Separate
File
Keep
Now
Two
I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
Ed Koch
Politics
Speak
First
Windows
Writers
Know
Occasionally
Polish
Passages
Dictate
Dictated
Then
Who
Many
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.
Edward Gibbon
Language
Chaste
Obscurity
Learned
Passages
Text
Left
Decent
English
Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.
Erica Jong
People
Speak
School
Word
Language
Think
Our
Reciting
Our Lives
Scares
Poetry
School Teachers
Most
Ecstatic
Terrifying
Passages
Very
Grade
Grade School
Teachers
Lives
By the last decades of the 21st century, church worship will still take the form of reading passages of traditional texts - the Bible, the Koran, the Rig Veda - but physicist-priests will preside over the ceremonies.
Frank Tipler
Bible
Church
Will
Reading
Worship
Take
Over
Koran
Passages
Still
Traditional
Texts
Decades
Form
Century
Ceremonies
Rig
Last
My most interesting correspondence is with my translators. I marvel at their sensitivity over certain passages that just anyone, even if he knows German well, would not appreciate.
Heinrich Boll
Correspondence
Would
Marvel
He
Over
Most
Well
Knows
Passages
German
Just
Anyone
Sensitivity
Interesting
Certain
Even
Appreciate
I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race.
Jennifer Carpenter
Religion
Bible
Book
Christopher
Favorite
Run
Would
Would-Be
Running
Born
Arm
Read
Passages
Were
Race
Actually
Tim sends me a fairly ambitious workup in notebook form noting the passages we're going to cover and the chronology of the biblical events, and his commentaries on those things he's read and written.
Jerry B. Jenkins
Me
Bible
Events
Chronology
Those
He
Written
Fairly
Read
Passages
Tim
Cover
His
Ambitious
Sends
Going
Form
Notebook
Noting
Things
My process is pretty messy, and there's a lot of creative destruction in it. When I set out to write something, I'll write some passages from it just to figure out who these characters are, how they talk. And I have a dim sense of what it's about and where it's going to go, but I know that's going to change, too.
Jesse Andrews
Change
Creative
Destruction
Sense
Too
Dim
Out
Characters
Some
Pretty
About
Something
Write
Know
Talk
Messy
How
Passages
Go
Lot
Going
Just
Where
Process
Figure
Who
Set
Some of those early roles were unactable. Even Laurence Olivier couldn't have done anything with them. The dialog ran to cardboard passages such as, 'I love you. You can rely on me, darling. I'll wait.' It was all I could do to keep from adding, 'With egg on my face.'
John Gavin
Love
Me
You
Wait
Face
Adding
Ran
Those
Laurence
Laurence Olivier
Darling
Some
Rely
Could
Passages
Dialog
Were
Roles
Egg
Done
Love You
Anything
Them
Even
Keep
Cardboard
Early
We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary.
Ken Follett
Free
Long
Dramatic
Summary
Tell
Scene
Write
Felt
Passages
Whereas
Stories
Victorian
Cutting
Next
Novelists
Now
Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play.
Paul Watzlawick
Nature
Comedy
Classical
Above
Since
Passages
References
Times
Representation
Fictive
Which
Again
Found
Play
Level
Spectators
Interrupted
I tend to start with a kernel, a vague concept, and just begin to write things down - notes about a character, lines of dialogue, descriptive passages about a place. One idea fires another. I do that for about a year. By then there's a story, and I'll go on to a complete first draft that sews many of those ragtag pieces together.
Scott Turow
Character
Together
First
Year
Down
Complete
Those
About
About A Year
Tend
Write
Fires
Idea
Concept
Pieces
Another
Passages
Dialogue
Go
Lines
Begin
Just
Story
Place
Notes
Then
Many
Descriptive
Things
Start
Draft
Kernel
Vague
There aren't many great passages written about food, but I love one by George Millar, who worked for the SOE in the second world war and wrote a book called 'Horned Pigeon.' He had been on the run and hadn't eaten for a week, and his description of the cheese fondue he smells in the peasant kitchen of a house in eastern France is unbelievable.
Sebastian Faulks
Love
War
Food
Great
Book
World
Cheese
France
Run
Eastern
Eaten
Unbelievable
About
Kitchen
Week
Had
He
Written
Smells
House
Wrote
Pigeon
Passages
George
Been
His
Worked
Who
Many
Description
Second
Peasant
World War
Second World War
They say it's not the snoring itself but those anxiety-packed moments in between snorts. It's the waiting for the nasal passages of the person lying beside you to strike again. And strike it always does. In the dark, almost against your will, you produce that special glare reserved for people who cannot control their own behaviour.
Sloane Crosley
You
Waiting
People
Dark
Will
Own
Control
Lying
Strike
Say
Those
Beside
Glare
Almost
Between
Does
Always
Passages
Itself
Person
Snoring
Behaviour
Cannot
In-Between
Again
Against
Produce
Your
Special
Who
Moments
Reserved
They Say
Once or twice, I've taken the Gideon Bible out of the drawer, opened it at random, and found myself stuck in the middle of a genealogical list. And that's when I thought: why not cherry-pick the best bits, passages that people can actually use?
Stephen Hough
Best
Myself
Bible
People
Random
Thought
Once
Drawer
Bits
Out
Stuck
Taken
Opened
Passages
List
Middle
Use
Found
Twice
Why
Why Not
Actually
The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Corner
Minds
Phrases
Taken
Merely
Pass
Passages
Test
His
Author
Current
Younger
Newspapers
Root
Really
Found
Number
The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.
Tracy Kidder
Learning
Writing
Out
Only
Write
Had
Studies
Passages
Encyclopedia
Done
The Hardest Thing
Social
Hardest
Hardest Thing
Right
Thing
Copying
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