“I love this life, because I am a human being and it sure would be nice, I think, to preserve it. But I don't even know if that's true, because God's mind is huge, and I don't really know what he's thinking.I can only do what I do with a spirit of humor, and faith and give the controls over to something else.” IfsThinkingKnowsGivingMindHumansI CanWould BeSpiritHuman BeingsNiceHugeThis LifePreservesBeing Nice Author:Elizabeth Lesser
“... the transaction between a writer and the spirit of the age is one of infinite delicacy, and upon a nice arrangement between the two the whole fortune of his works depend.” TwoWholeAgeSpiritNiceDependsInfiniteFortuneArrangementsTransactionsDelicacy Book:Orlando: A Biography Source: Orlando: A Biography
“Infatuation is one of those slightly comic illnesses which are at once so undignified and so painful that a nice-minded world does its best to ignore their existence altogether, referring to them only under provocation and then with apology, but, like its more material brother, this boil on the neck of the spirit can hardly be forgotten either by the sufferer or anyone else in his vicinity. The malady is ludicrous, sad, excruciating and, above all, instantly diagnosable.” WorldDoeSpiritExistenceNiceBrotherMaterialsForgottenPainfulIllnessComicNecksApologyInfatuationReferringSufferersProvocationMaladyVicinity Book:Three Cases for Mr. Campion Source: Three Cases for Mr. Campion
“I believe that parts of people like John Garfield and Moms Mabley, the parts of them that I needed to be able to do what I'm doing, came into me. There's a very nice feeling that there are many, many spirits inside of me looking after me . . .” PeopleBelieveFeelingsAbleSpiritI BelieveNiceMomNeededVery NiceNice FeelingGarfield Author:Whoopi Goldberg