Irene Fornes Quotes

#1. I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels.

Maj Sjowall

#2. Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.

Abdolkarim Soroush

#3. When I behold the heavens as in their prime,
And then the earth (though old) still clad in green,
The stones and trees, insensible of time,
Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen

Anne Bradstreet

#4. We can only do what is possible for us to do. But still it is good to know what the impossible is.

Maria Irene Fornes

#5. I have to live with my decisions, whether you like them or not.

Maria Irene Fornes

#6. If Jesus, Jesse James, and a herd of pink robot unicorns strolled in walking on water, this bunch wouldn't even look up.

Richard Kadrey

#7. Though I made my share of mistakes, as all parents do, I was devoted to my kids. I walked them to school every morning and walked back to pick them up at 3.

Sally Mann

#8. God is simple. Everything else is complex. Do not seek absolute values in the relative world of nature.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#9. When I'm not doing something that comes deeply from me, I get bored. When I get bored I get distracted and when I get distracted, I become depressed. It's a natural resistance, and it insures your integrity.

Maria Irene Fornes

#10. I've always tried to fight against, 'Oh, who's that small funny actress? Let's get her.'

Imelda Staunton

#11. There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.

Adam Osborne

#12. Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.

J.I. Packer

#13. Faith is a gift of God, which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards or menace of torture.

Thomas Hobbes