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David Liss Quotes

In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: March 16, 1966

Topics

Past People Research Interesting

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing Insight Without Terrible

I spend my life studying that book, and every book I've written has in some sense been a book about the Bible, and that's what I mean by reclaiming its value and its essence for a world that no longer treats it literally and no longer reads it traditionally.

John Shelby Spong

Life Value World Book Bible My Life

No authoritarian leader cedes power easily or turns it over to bodies he cannot control.

Leader Power Control Authoritarian

A healthy body means a healthy mind. You get your heart rate up, and you get the blood flowing through your body to your brain. Look at Albert Einstein. He rode a bicycle. He was also an early student of Jazzercise. You never saw Einstein lift his shirt, but he had a six-pack under there.

Heart Mind Brain Bicycle Body Look

If 'ecstasy' means to stand outside ourselves, then what better ambition can there be as we wait in the wings of the Royal Albert Hall: to leave self-obsession behind and take the audience on a journey across the high wire of Beethoven or the flying trapeze of Liszt.

Journey Ambition Wait Flying Better

I love moving through long spaces and being enclosed.

Steven Shainberg

Love Moving Long Through Being

For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.

Faith Progressive Activism Left

When I started with music, all I was looking for was to ensure I never had to live the life I grew up with. I wanted a foolproof exemption from pain and boredom. I wanted a life of constant amusement and leisure.

Life Live Music Pain Looking Never

It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.

Believe Enough Easy You Young Want

Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds.

Experience Soul Travel Awareness

Then they started pulling me in and I was very resistant. All the other actors would be saying write more, more dialogue for me, and I'd always be saying 'No, less, less'.

Me Saying More Write Always Started

The stories that I want to tell are completely, well, somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems.

Nicole Holofcener

Problems Want My Own Tell Own Well

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