Kreisberg Lawrence Quotes

Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science. ~ Lawrence Joseph Henderson

The Trade Center dead formed a kind of universal parliament. ~ Lawrence Wright

That is the real pivot of all bourgeois consciousness in all countries: fear and hate of the instinctive, intuitional, procreativebody in man or woman. But of course this fear and hate had to take on a righteous appearance, so it became moral, said that the instincts, intuitions and all the activities of the procreative body were evil, and promised a reward for their suppression. That is the great clue to bourgeois psychology: the reward business. ~ D.H. Lawrence

The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have an opportunity every day to shoot it in an unusual way. I was looking for something like that. ~ Lawrence Kasdan

Life is beautiful, as long as it consumes you. When it is rushing through you, destroying you, life is gorgeous, glorious. It's when you burn a slow fire and save fuel, that life's not worth having. ~ D.H. Lawrence

Don't do anything to anyone, and people will not make trouble for you. ~ Stephen Lawrence

Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were. ~ Lawrence Durrell

I'll do my life work, sticking up for the love between man and woman. ~ D.H. Lawrence

There is no "can't" in martial arts. It is perfectly all right for students to state that they are "still working on it", "have not mastered it yet", or "are trying as best they can" as all of those sentiments reflect willingness and perseverance. It is not all right, on the other hand, to verbally or physically portray reluctance, vacillation, or defect. ~ Lawrence Kane

And it seems to me a blasphemy to say that the Holy Spirit is Love. In the Old Testament it is an Eagle: in the New it is a Dove.Christ insists on the Dove: but in His supreme moments He includes the Eagle. ~ D.H. Lawrence

Isn't love the most horrible thing! I think it's just horrible. it just does one in, and turns one into a sort of howling animal. ~ D.H. Lawrence

Sixteenth-century litigation combined the qualities of tedium, hardship, brutality, and injustice that tested character and endurance, with the element of pure chance that appealed to the gambler, the fear of defeat and ruin, and the hope of victory and humiliation of the enemy. It had everything that war can offer except the delights of shedding blood. ~ Lawrence Stone

Bert, whenever you see something bright, shining, perfect-seeming - all gold, with purple spots - look behind the paint! And if it's a lie - show it up for what it really is! ~ Jerome Lawrence

I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder. ~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti

God does not have hands, we do. Our hands are God's. It is up to us what God will see and hear, up to us, what God will do. Humanity is the organ of consciousness of the universe ... Without our eyes the Holy One of Being would be blind. ~ Lawrence Kushner

I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence. ~ Seamus Heaney

If you must run, have something to run toward, so it feels less like cowardice. ~ Mark Lawrence

Communism wasn't a word that I thought of when I went to Cuba. The original Fidelistas were not Communists. They were graduate students at the university and law students. After the Fidelistas took over, they went to Washington and tried to get support from the U.S. government, which turned them down. They were in a desperate political and economic situation, so they took the offer from the Soviet Union. Communism was a matter of necessity. ~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Opera? Dear God why?' That was the last thing I needed. A bunch of fat and painted idiots wailing at me from a stage for several hours. 'Just ~ Mark Lawrence

Odd, isn't it? He really was the right man for her in a sort of way; but then as you know, it is a law of love that the so-called 'right' person always comes to soon or too late. ~ Lawrence Durrell

I have a responsibility to the worker, both blue-collar and white-collar. I have an equal responsibility to the community. It would have been unconscionable to put 3,000 people on the streets and deliver a deathblow to the cities of Lawrence and Methuen. Maybe on paper our company is worthless to Wall Street, but I can tell you it's worth more. ~ Aaron Feuerstein

Where sanity is there God is. ~ D.H. Lawrence

THERE IS, IN the act of destruction, a beauty which we try to deny, and a joy which we cannot. Children ~ Mark Lawrence

I love Photoshop more than anything in the world! ~ Jennifer Lawrence

I've always seen 'no' as a challenge rather than an answer. ~ Mark Lawrence

Cast up
the heart flops over
gasping 'Love'
a foolish fish which tries to draw
its breath from flesh of air
And no one there to hear its death
among the sad bushes
where the world rushes by
in a blather of asphalt and delay ~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Today you live, child. Tomorrow, you dream. ~ Lawrence Hill

It was such peace and heavenly freedom, just to fold her and kiss her gently, and not to have any thoughts or any desires or any will, just to be still with her, to be perfectly still and together, in a peace that was not sleep, but content in bliss. To be content in bliss, without desire or insistence anywhere, this was heaven: to be together in happy stillness. ~ D.H. Lawrence

So slowly the hot elephant hearts
grow full of desire,
and the great beasts mate in secret at last,
hiding their fire. ~ D.H. Lawrence

This coup de main gave Morgan the means to make himself a Jamaican planter
and to secure a knighthood, respectability and the governorship of the colony. It
also, like Drake's similar exploits a hundred years before, made a deep impression
on the public imagination and reinforced that popular image of distant lands as
places where quick fortunes were waiting for the energetic and ruthless. ~ Lawrence James

Life is much too serious to be taken seriously. ~ Vicki Lawrence

Whether I get on in the world is a question; but I certainly don't get on very well with the world. ~ D.H. Lawrence

Out here you need to live in the moments. Watch the world. You're a young man, Jal, a child who's refused to grow up. Do it now, or you'll die a young man. ~ Mark Lawrence

There are no other choices for you, Prince Jalan, and when there are no choices all men are equally brave. ~ Mark Lawrence

When van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at that quick moment of time. His painting does not represent the sunflower itself. We shall never know what the sunflower itself is. And the camera will visualize the sunflower far more perfectly than van Gogh can. ~ D.H. Lawrence

If it offends you. Stop me. ~ Mark Lawrence

I was interested in working on a show that was driven by women. ~ Sharon Lawrence

It is marriage, perhaps, which had given man the best of his freedom, given him his little kingdom of his own within the big kingdom of the state ... It is a true freedom because it is a true fulfilment, for man, woman and children. Do we then want to break marriage? If we do break it, it means we all fall to a far greater extent under the direct sway of the State. ~ D.H. Lawrence

[Justice] Murphy... who ruled against the state [anti-sodomy] law... didn't see why the Supreme Court had to dwell on the historical background of sodomy laws [before striking them down]. All one really had to know to decide the case, he reasoned, was that Texas and its legions of moralizers let people have sex with animals. End of story. ~ Dale Carpenter

Folks think that children will make up for all they ought to do and haven't done ... ~ Josephine Lawrence

how he once slipped through the "scriptural text" of his daily life into the primordial light of consciousness itself. ~ Lawrence Kushner

With Snorri troubles were always put front and centre and dealt with. My style was more to shove them under the rug until the floor got too uneven to navigate, and then to move house. ~ Mark Lawrence

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying. ~ Lawrence Durrell

A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense. ~ Lawrence Lessig