Tony Hendra Quotes

#1. Blessed are the generous, for they know their riches belong to others. Blessed

Tony Hendra

#2. Melancholy can be seductive when it's twined with self-pity.

Dean Koontz

#3. You see, dear - I think there are two types of people in the world. Those who divide the world up into two kinds of people... and those who don't.

Tony Hendra

#4. It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.

Damon Galgut

#5. Risk is a four-letter word, but you know something? So is safe.

Chiara Kelly

#6. All evil begins with this belief: that another's existence is less precious than mine.

Tony Hendra

#7. Wittgenstein once said: the mystery is, why does the universe exist at all?

Tony Hendra

#8. Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight.

John Armstrong

#9. Hell is being alone for all eternity. Alone, unloved, unloving.

Tony Hendra

#10. Everybody is a critic, everybody has a voice, everybody can reach you. Everybody is an expert and that's what makes it fun.

Richard Sherman

#11. For him, a universe imbued with the divine was not something to make you bow down but something to reassure you. The divinity of all things is normal, not awesome.

Tony Hendra

#12. The ordinary was the divine, where common sense met mystery, where logic kissed the cheek of the inexplicable, the immeasurable, immemorial spirit throbbing like veins beneath the hard gray asphalt of quotidian life.

Tony Hendra

#13. Satire dramatizes better than any other use of it, the inherent contradiction of free speech that it functions best when what is being said is at its most outrageous.

Tony Hendra

#14. I try to enjoy a movie or a television programme just like anybody else. I'd love to be emerged into the story and watch it, but if you work a lot as an actor, in any aspect of the industry, things might arise in a programme that somebody might miss, whereas it might catch your attention.

Rory Cochrane

#15. I enjoy being a student and learning. I don't think you should ever stop being a student. That's where the most creative ideas come from. Teaching is a blessing as well because I get to share what I've learned and my passion for creative movement with people.

Derek Hough

#16. All these thoughts of love and strife
Glimmered through his lurid life,
As the stars' intenser light
Through the red flames o'er him trailing,
As his ships went sailing, sailing,
Northward in the summer night.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#17. This is the end. This is as far as you can go. After this it all starts over again.

Tony Hendra

#18. Here I am with a seriously hunky guy and I'm covered in demon pee. Why does the universe hate me?

Jana Oliver

#19. History was a way to live extra lives, to cheat the limits of flesh and blood, to roll the rock back from the tomb and free the resurrected dead.

Tony Hendra

#20. I was awake and this was reality, the new reality of nothing
and worse, of having to continue to exist.

Tony Hendra

#21. A mind concerned about danger is a clouded mind. It's paralyzing.

Buzz Aldrin

#22. I'm a little frightened, perhaps. We always are, aren't we? When we have to open a door that's always been there...but we've never opened. [...] I mean frightened by the immensity of what lies beyond the door. A God of Love--infinite and eternal. How could I ever be worthy of that?

Tony Hendra

#23. Synchronistic events constitute moments in which a 'cosmic' or 'greater' meaning becomes gradually conscious in an individual; generally it is a shaking experience.

Marie-Louise Von Franz