Text Field Quotes

#1. A philosophy that cannot be lived is no philosophy at all.

Philip Zaleski

#2. Don't overthink things in front of you. I fit moves you, shoot it. If it's fun, shoot it. If you've never seen it before, shoot it.

Jay Maisel

#3. And godless though I am, the fact of being human, the fact of possessing the gift of study, and thus being remarkable among all the matter floating through the cosmos, still awes me.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#4. Remember that you are in actor in a play of such a kind that the author chooses ... For this is your duty, to act well the part that is given to you; but to select the part belongs to another.

Epictetus

#5. To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power.

Thomas Jefferson

#6. I love being in real life, and in particular, I like being with young people.

Beeban Kidron

#7. He calmed the storm to a whisper and stilled the waves. 30 What a blessing was that stillness as he brought them safely into harbor!

Anonymous

#8. Whatever your advice, make it brief.

Horace

#9. Some of you been trying to write rhymes for years,
But weak ideas irritate my ears.
Is this the best that you can make?
Cause if not, and you got more ... I'll wait.

Rakim

#10. On a purely personal level, it's very strange, because as a kid, Superman informed my personality. Now I've been given the job of forming Superman's personality and, in some ways, drawing on my own background.

J. Michael Straczynski

#11. In fact, I spent 25 years as a reporter, swearing I would never become an editor. Sitting at a desk, watching other people go out and find the story, and then fussing with other people's words - I just didn't get the appeal of that.

Bill Keller

#12. The lanterns filled the sky, pulsing with the harmonious light of fireflies, and a great host of ghosts departed from the earth to join them. The higher they rose into the zenith of the heavens, the further night was chased back, until a great and radiant being resumed its throne in the sky.

Heather Heffner

#13. The text is a limited field of possible constructions.

Paul Ricoeur