Doe Quotes - Page 224

One does not consider style, because style is.

Subject matter does not determine a successful painting. It is the manner in which one personally envisions and interprets the subject that is the magical equation.

Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tobagie" as Michelet calls it, spreads all over the world.

A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art. Both are reasonable, both untrue to the crude fact; both inhere in nature, neither represents it.

Does God say, "cut back on the sunsets?" No, our Maker is abundant.

The cat does not negotiate with the mouse.

We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism.

Love does not come and go; we are the ones who come and go.

The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.

The bottom line is if the movie does well, everybody is happy and they forget about what they went through. And if it doesn't, it's 'I told you.' There's one director who I won't mention, who said, 'it's all blood under the bridge.'

For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished that the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessel, holding treasure, But the main thing is, does it hold good measure Heaven soon sets right all other matters!

In times of crisis, it is of the utmost importance that one does not lose her head. Marie Antoinette

Science, incidentally, not only ignores the question of indwelling 'essences' by looking instead at measurable relationships, but science also does not agree that knowledge is obtained through Rothbard's Medieval 'investigation by a reason,' i.e., by inventing definitions and then deducing what your definitions implicitly assumed.

Art does not in fact prove anything. What it does do is record one of those brief times, such as we each have and then each forget, when we are allowed to understand that the Creation is whole.

Marty Richards is an angel on Earth. A producer that does what he says he'll do. He helped me greatly.

I spend a lot of my time just developing material; or the company does. That material can come from a book, can come from a newspaper, can come from a discussion and sometimes it can come from a script that got passed over and is floating around.

I shun drawing which is too easily formulated. It does not seem fertilized enough to produce consequences, and a drawing should be a provider of consequences.

The Lord does not forgive excuses, He forgives sin.

Mudslinging - In politics, anything bad the opponent says about our candidate; in contrast, when our candidate does this, it is called 'making a good point.

In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.

Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.

If you live in a squalid environment, then of course you are going to want to get out of it, you are probably going to want to get into the country, because that's what it does.

Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad — but it does not carry instructions on how to use it.

The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.

If the President does it, it can't be illegal.