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Isaac Mayer Wise Quotes

The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by an internal and marvelous power.

Isaac Mayer Wise

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: clergyman
Nationality: american
Birth: March 29, 1819 - March 26, 1900

Topics

Power Alone Gray Israel Away

You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts, but as a screenwriter, you are a bit down the ladder.

Jo Nesbo

You Down Play Ladder Director Get

We were watching the first series recently, and it has a charm, a kind of amateur charm. At that point we didn't involve ourselves technically at all - we just messed about and told our jokes - and it looks a bit like that.

Jennifer Saunders

Looks Kind First Watching Jokes Our

I have that working-class show-business blood coursing through my veins.

Jenny Lewis

Blood Through Veins Working-Class

It's dangerous to accept crisis as your baseline. It gets harder and harder to see the anti-crises that are so requisite to happiness: the quiet times, the crucial pauses - like those in a poem.

Amity Gaige

Happiness Quiet Dangerous Crisis See

Readers, like writers, are essentially amoral. Arm's length will never do. We want to get closer.

Stacey D'Erasmo

Want Will Never Get Closer Readers

I have always had an abiding interest in that type of female anatomy.

Robert Crumb

Always Anatomy Interest Female Type

My father was my hero when I was still a boy.

Romelu Lukaku

Father Hero Boy Still

'End of Watch' was 98-percent written, and I work really hard to make it look like it's the first time I'm saying it.

Michael Pena

Work Time Saying End Look First

I was that weird kid that checked out all of the non-fiction paranormal studies books from the library. I've always been fascinated by the supernatural, particularly movies and TV shows that manage to blend humor with the horror - 'Supernatural', 'Buffy', 'Angel.'

Molly Harper

Humor Angel Library Weird Movies

As filmmakers, we want the audience to have the most complete experience they can. For example, I interviewed Stanley Kubrick years ago around the time of '2001: A Space Odyssey.' I was going to see the film that night in London, and he insisted I sit in one of four seats in the theater for the best view or not watch the film.

Michael Mann

Time Best Experience Space Night

It's always challenging to go into a role.

Jay Hernandez

Go Always Role Challenging

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Jean Cocteau

Life Simplicity Ideas Design Bear