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A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie. -- Maurice Jarre
N.Y. Chamber of Commerce Urges Passage of Silver For War Use. -- Caryl Parker Haskins
Passage Vero-Dodat - I started my company on this passage. It feels as much home as it can! -- Christian Louboutin
I've been wanting to write a book about what goes into creating a novel, and the story behind 'A Passage to India' is especially interesting. -- Damon Galgut
These poems are a mental sketch as formed / Passage by passage of light and shade / Maintained and preserved to this point / Brought together in paper and mineral ink -- Kenji Miyazawa
I'm still an English professor at Rice University here in Houston. They've been very generous in letting me on a very long leash to just work on 'The Passage' and its sequels. -- Justin Cronin
The book [ A Passage to India ] shows signs of fatigue and disillusionment; but it has chapters of clear and triumphant beauty, and above all it makes us wonder, what will he write next? -- E. M. Forster
Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years. -- Damon Galgut
Passage of time can be mind-numbing to figure out in a screenplay. It's the easiest thing to do in prose, not just by writing 'four years later', but you can shift time in a sentence or two. -- Mark Boal
Of all the hot liquors, I regard buttered rum as the worst. I believe that the drinking of it should be permitted only in the "Northwest Passage" and, even there, only by highly imaginative and overenthusiastic novelists. -- David A. Embury
Endurance involves much more than putting up with a situation; Patient Endurance is more than pacing up and down within the cell of circumstance. True Enduring represents not merely the passage of time, . . . but the Passage of Soul. -- Neal A. Maxwell
The only requisite to entry into the Middle Passage is to have discovered that one does not know who one is, that there are no rescuers, no Mommy or Daddy, and that one's fellow travelers will do well to survive themselves. -- James Hollis
In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never went back to that part of the world again, and I consider it the same in space exploration. -- John L. Phillips
Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a huge winery. Iceland was a farming community. As some of the glaciers retreated they found villages that were covered with ice. -- Don Young
Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a huge winery. Iceland was a farming community. As some of the glaciers retreated they found villages that were covered with ice." -- Don Young
Old age and the passage of time teach all things. -- Sophocles
Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time. -- Arthur Ashe
The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it. -- Esther Williams
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible. -- Balthus
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. -- Richard Dawkins
It amazes me that the most Christian funerals are the most barbaric funeral rites of passage that are celebrated anywhere in the world. -- Steve Earle
Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches. -- Dolly Parton
The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968. -- Jeffrey Toobin
We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement. -- William Howard Taft
Nobody paid any attention career-wise to me in America until 'Bronson.' It gave me a calling card and passage into America, where I've always wanted to work. -- Tom Hardy
You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me. -- Vivien Leigh
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We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be. -- Lauren Hutton
I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full. -- Arthur Ashe
A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us. -- Rowan Williams
Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old. -- Rowan Williams
From the Medicare prescription drug plan to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the passage of No Child Left Behind, President Bush presided over a major expansion of the reach of government. -- Chuck Todd
Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath. -- Ram Dass
Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications. -- John Podhoretz
I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now. -- Henry David Thoreau
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. -- Thomas Mann
Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation. -- Abraham Verghese
Probably the one Bible passage that is read by Jews and Roman Catholics, Protestants, Islam, more than any other chapter is Psalm 23. And in Psalm 23 there is a verse that says, 'Surely, yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.' -- Robert H. Schuller
For too long, our society has shrugged off bullying by labeling it a 'rite of passage' and by asking students to simply 'get over it.' Those attitudes need to change. Every day, students are bullied into silence and are afraid to speak up. Let's break this silence and end school bullying. -- Linda Sanchez
The message of Jesus is summed up partly in the Sermon on the Mount, and partly when he begins his ministry and quotes the passage from Isaiah: 'I have come to set free the prisoners and restore sight to the blind.' And certainly, his mission is also to bring hope. It was to heal people, to befriend the outcast. -- Dan Wakefield
Cinema was my rite of passage. -- John Singleton
Memories carry thoughts through the passage of time. -- Truth Devour
Death is the least civilized rite of passage. -- Louise Erdrich
I'm only interested in rites of passage stories. -- Pete Townshend
Things go away to return, brightened for the passage -- A. R. Ammons
The mere passage of time makes us all exiles. -- Joyce Carol Oates
The worse the passage the more welcome the port. -- Thomas Fuller
Life is a passage through a museum of beauty. -- Robert Genn
The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time. -- James Taylor
Getting a tattoo should hurt. It's a rite of passage. -- Jenna Jameson
Sometimes I feel that 'Footloose' is the rite of passage. -- Craig Brewer
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof. -- Rene Char
Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time. -- William Cowper
Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage. -- Octavia Butler
Ritual is the passage way of the soul into the Infinite. -- Algernon Blackwood
Do not walk through time without leaving worthy evidence of your passage. -- Pope John XXIII
To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing. -- Lance Henriksen
House passage is good news for the Northwest corner and our environment. -- Nancy Johnson
Every door is another passage, another boundary we have to go beyond. -- Rumi
The passage is through, not over, not by, not around but through. -- Cherrie Moraga
Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter. -- Nadine Gordimer
Life is one passage and then you keep moving into another state. -- Hiroshi Sugimoto
The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains. -- Julian Barbour
It's a rite of passage for the everyman, to a higher ground. -- Bob Seger
Door of passage to the other side, the soul frees itself in stride. -- Jim Morrison
Through each passage and each season, may you trust the goodness f life. -- Charlene Costanzo
My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road. -- Kenny Loggins
...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life. -- John Dewey
On my passage thither, I discovered nothing remarkable in the features of the country. -- William Henry Ashley
A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams. -- Rene Char
A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life. -- Charlotte Bronte
White means the strength of fragility and the fragility of the passage of time. -- Martin Margiela
Topology is precisely the mathematical discipline that allows the passage from local to global... -- Rene Thom
Refusing to teach a passage of Scripture is just as wrong as abusing it -- Francis Chan
America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts. -- Dirk Benedict
It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money. -- Juvenal
Every fool in error can find a passage of scripture to back him up -- John Howard Griffin
Nothing knits man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash. -- Walter Sickert
The passage of time has not altered the capacity of the Redeemer to change lives. -- Thomas S. Monson
death - a passage outside the range of imagination, but within the range of experience. -- Isak Dinesen
How many human eyes...had snatched glimpses of their secret anatomies, down the passage of years? -- Clive Barker
Each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time. -- Nicholas Sparks
A memorized scripture becomes an enduring friend that does not weaken with the passage of time. -- Richard G. Scott
Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays. -- Jonathan Swift
Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time. -- Nicholas Sparks
Few of us go through life without taking part in some kind of rite of passage. -- Hank Nuwer
The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless -- Haruki Murakami
We have got to dispel this myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage. -- Barack Obama
You look older." "Yes, well. The passage of time tends to do that to a person. -- Veronica Roth
The fifth gift is Hope. Through each passage and season, may you trust the goodness of life. -- Charlene Costanzo
The majority of people who keel over dead at concerts are killed by a long trumpet passage. -- Garrison Keillor
Do not look for a secret passage in nature because nature is already the secret passage itself! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The digital artwork is characterized not by the technology which delivers it, but by the "passage" itself. -- Masha Tupitsyn
I cannot recall a more engaging passage in fiction, and I've been trying for almost eighteen seconds. -- S. J. Perelman
Writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked. -- Christina Baldwin
I remember visits to the local libraries and getting my own library cards as things of rite-of-passage significance. -- Richard K. Morgan
Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage. -- Gemma Ward
Becoming internally empowered shifts a person's center of gravity from external to internal- a mark of spiritual passage. -- Caroline Myss
Especially these days where everything is so polite and so proper, I think that rites of passage are good. -- Emile Hirsch
Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. -- Samuel Johnson
Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside. -- Helene Cixous
somehow, with the passage of time, and the dealines that life imposes, surrending became the right thing to do -- Randy Pausch
A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
The lives of Zoroaster, Jesus and Mohammed, as I have understood them, have illumined many a passage in the Gita. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I always say that as a Christian I cannot find any passage in the Gospels in which Jesus condemned homosexuality. -- Troy Perry
For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it. -- William Penn
Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God ordered motion, but ordained no rest. -- Henry Vaughan
[During] the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act], equal pay for equal work, the women led that fight. -- Barbara Mikulski
It's almost a rite of passage for the middle-aged, it seems, to invent generational stereotypes for dumping on the young. -- Robin Marantz Henig
90% of what is considered "impossible" is, in fact, possible. The other 10% will become possible with the passage of time & technology. -- Hideo Kojima
If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right. -- Joyce Johnson
There is as much ingenuity in making an felicitous application of an passage as in being the author of it. -- Charles de Saint-Evremond
Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn't clear ... was toward what place, what reality, that passage led. -- Roberto Bolano
The moment you come to a passage of scripture and say, "Oh, I know this one already," you're in deep trouble. -- Howard G. Hendricks
I have never been prouder to be a lifelong New Yorker than I am today with the passage of marriage equality. -- Cyndi Lauper
How science dwindles, and how volumes swell, How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun! -- Edward Young
Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born. -- Erma Bombeck
All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time. -- Simone Weil
[I]t is more convenient to prevent the passage of a law, than to declare it void after it has passed. -- James Madison

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