I think the Chainsaw remake is very good and captures the spirit of the original film. It's true to the tone of the original, to the point that it's almost a companion piece. ~By Tobe Hooper ~
Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit. ~By Stefan Banach ~
Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in his way, and there are many biologists and physicists of the first order who are like that. ~By Jonathan Miller ~
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. ~By William Winwood Reade ~
It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not only to compete but to improve, and to bring lasting spiritual and moral benefits to the athlete and inspiration to those lucky enough to witness the athletic dedication. ~By Herb Elliott ~
There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit. ~By Tom Wolfe ~
And the spirit of Superman is great to have around. ~By Brandon Routh ~
Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart. ~By Hesiod ~
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. ~By John Updike ~
My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense. ~By Polly Toynbee ~
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders. ~By Ben Stein ~
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency. ~By Margaret Fuller ~
Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else. ~By Beverly Sills ~
A hero is somebody who is selfless, who is generous in spirit, who just tries to give back as much as possible and help people. A hero to me is someone who saves people and who really deeply cares. ~By Debi Mazar ~
The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself. ~By Kate Millett ~
One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits. ~By Rita Dove ~
Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude. ~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go. ~By Mandy Patinkin ~
Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it. ~By Johann G. Hamann ~
Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values. ~By Bridget Riley ~
This kind of prelude was succeeded by the concerto itself which he executed with a degree of spirit and firmness that no one has ever pretended to equal. ~By John Hawkins ~
When I think about my new CD, the word "joy" comes to mind. I sincerely hope that each listener will feel the earth, spirit, and aggressive creativity emanating from this album. ~By George Duke ~
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver. ~By Charles de Montesquieu ~
There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new. ~By Esa-Pekka Salonen ~
Shaving my head was a millennium ritual, to not let it pass as just another New Year's Eve. A lot has happened to me in the last couple of years, personally and spiritually. I wanted to mark it for myself. ~By Joan Jett ~
That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes. ~By Mordechai Vanunu ~
This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped. ~By Walter Reisch ~
In business a reputation for keeping absolutely to the letter and spirit of an agreement, even when it is unfavorable, is the most precious of assets, although it is not entered in the balance sheet. ~By Lord Chandos ~
The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that. ~By John Guare ~
It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break. ~By Patrick McGoohan ~
Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space and time. ~By Paul Twitchell ~
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love. ~By Honore de Balzac ~
Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey. ~By Alex Noble ~
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true. ~By Gore Vidal ~
Sometimes I miss the spirit of London, but it's a very gray place. ~By Claire Forlani ~
It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead. ~By H. P. Blavatsky ~
I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit. ~By Yehudi Menuhin ~
We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other. ~By Naomi Klein ~
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear. ~By Florence Nightingale ~
For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in the heavens, as well as in the earth; hence the Word is spiritual and Divine. ~By Emanuel Swedenborg ~
Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things which it has given us, but also in that it guides our spirit. ~By Polykarp Kusch ~
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. ~By William Ellery Channing ~
In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason. ~By Heinrich Heine ~
It's not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a television talk-show host. ~By Jim Bakker ~
We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit. ~By Tom Brown, Jr. ~
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. ~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great. ~By Andy Hertzfeld ~
The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress. ~By Ramana Maharshi ~
Why not hold on to whatever I've got because it's as good as it's ever going to get. How can I believe that love is coming, how can I even believe that love exists; if I don't believe it's spiritually based? ~By Kenny Loggins ~
I've been in the studio experimenting on making a CD of my own. I'm trying out different producers, styles, sounds. With music, as opposed to acting, you are not playing a character. You are showing people who you are. I really want to have my spirit in it. ~By Emily Rossum ~
Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain. ~By Douglas Horton ~
I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit. ~By Miriam Makeba ~
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants. ~By Jimmy Carter ~
They don't allow you to go any further unless you can do this bomb suit training, because it puts such a mental strain on your spirit. It dumbs you down about 25 to 30 IQ points. You start to hallucinate in the heat inside the suit after 20-30 minutes. So you try not to stay in it too dang long. So the preparation for that - it's either you have it, or you do not. ~By Jeremy Renner ~
I learned again that the mind-body-spirit connection has to be in balance. ~By Wynonna Judd ~
I am very confident that the Spirit is with us. ~By William P. Leahy ~
It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope. ~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
The first stone was just tried in the spirit of experimentation. The opening of the stone was far more interesting than the drawing that I had done on it. ~By Andy Goldsworthy ~
It certainly must help us if we recognize that it is the presence of the Holy Spirit which creates a unity which we can never create. ~By Roland Allen ~
When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, "I can't." ~By Oswald Chambers ~
The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep. ~By Alan Patrick Herbert ~
One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space? ~By Anish Kapoor ~
Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body. ~By Carol P. Christ ~
If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit. ~By Harold Bloom ~
He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever. ~By Gilbert Parker ~
The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources. ~By Marquis De Vauvenargues ~
If you look at the fact that the best chance we have for a good economy is the private sector. The government cannot create jobs. If the government could create jobs, then Communism would have worked. But didn't work. So what we have to do is allow the private sector and the entrepreneurial spirit to lead us back to a job-filled recovery. ~By Tim Scott ~
I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great. ~By Ernie Pyle ~
The left-leaning thinking that dominates the movie business follows a common liberal instinct to deny the spiritual dimension to every problem, thereby profoundly compounding the difficulties. ~By Michael Medved ~
I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well. I believe in creative visualization. So for me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water. ~By Victoria Beckham ~
A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal. ~By Andrew Cohen ~
My friends all regarded me as a man of unsound mind because I held the view that my wife was with me in spirit always. I have lived with her spirit guiding me every day and she is with me now as I write this letter, and helps me to do as I am now doing. ~By Alex Campbell ~
We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body. ~By Larry Norman ~
A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog. ~By Irving Babbitt ~
Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur. ~By Alfred Eisenstaedt ~
Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics. ~By Christopher Lasch ~
The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself. ~By Arthur Erickson ~
Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which. ~By Algernon Charles Swinburne ~
In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance. ~By Tiger Woods ~
Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being. ~By Alexander Solzhenitsyn ~
The fact that he didn't get credit for a while is more the story of social injustice. But his own spirit wasn't driven by that, and wasn't dependent upon that. He just wished he had the cash to go to medical school. ~By Mary Stuart Masterson ~
Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, the things which remain mysterious or unexplained have always drawn me to include them in any scheme for a novel. ~By Rose Tremain ~
I can't explain it, but spiritually it makes sense - though I don't understand how it does make sense. ~By Kevin McDonald ~
The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous. ~By Francis Picabia ~
I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I going to really get into my spiritual inheritance of music and really develop my abilities? ~By Wynton Marsalis ~
So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning. ~By Aaron Copland ~
This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia. ~By Benjamin Harrison ~
Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality. ~By George William Russell ~
The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time. ~By Johann Kaspar Lavater ~
The great mistake these people make is that they go to looking after the spiritual welfare of the Indians before securing their physical. ~By George Crook ~
I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle! ~By Olympia Dukakis ~
For me, acting was a way of releasing all of this stuff that I had inside - and a way for me to tell the stories of the people I knew, so that their spirit could live through me. ~By Ving Rhames ~
The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian. ~By Aiden Wilson Tozer ~
He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust. ~By Emily Dickinson ~
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. ~By Hannah More ~
I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual. ~By Ja Rule ~
Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two. ~By Franz Marc ~
Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way. ~By Florence Scovel Shinn ~
Love is the force that ignites the spirit and binds teams together. ~By Phil Jackson ~
Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science. ~By William Jennings Bryan ~
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