“The only thing that I always do - is once I've taken on a job, even just to do one scene in a movie, I ask myself, "What's happened the moment the kid was born, until page one of the script?" To answer that simple question, I have an infinite amount of work to do. And I enjoy that part as much as I enjoy any part of making movies.” MomentsKidsJobsAsksEnjoyBornSimpleAnswersTakenHappenedAmountScenePagesInfiniteScripts Author:Viggo Mortensen
“What expressions we used - in part taken over and in part newly invented! above all, the famous 'wholly other' breaking in upon us 'perpendicularly from above,' the not less famous 'infinite qualitative distinction' between God and man, the vacuum, the mathematical point, and the tangent in which alone they must meet.” MenUsedTakenExpressionInfiniteMathematicalDistinctionVacuumsQualitative Book:The Humanity of God Source: The Humanity of God
“Another sad comestive truth is that the best foods are the products of infinite and wearying trouble. The trouble need not be taken by the consumer, but someone, ever since the Fall, has had to take it.” NeedsFallTakenTroubleFoodProductsTruth IsEatingInfiniteCookingConsumersEating FoodBest Food Book:Personal Pleasures Source: Personal Pleasures
“...as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away. We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God. Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. These natures no man ever got above, but they tower over us, and most in the moment when our interests tempt us to wound them.” KnowsMenSoulMomentsSpiritualLyingHeavenCausesSidesInterestJusticeTakenEffectsWallInfiniteScreensWoundsBarsCeaseAttributesTowersCeilingsSpiritual NatureLove FreedomAttributes Of God Book:Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson Source: Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson