Purity Quotes

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don`t mind Hollywood. After all, I don`t make movies that are like avant garde or not understandable. I just like to make a mainstream movie with all the edges that existed in the writing and I don`t like to see it flattened out in order to cater to audiences. I don`t really give a shit what people think about my movie after watching it and giving it a test score, but I really care about what you think about it when you see it in its purity, because I don`t feel like I`m going to lose you. I don`t feel like my movies are going to be for everyone because they`re not, because sometimes they`re more adult and that eliminates kids.

- Kevin Costner

I don`t particularly like westerns as a genre, but I do love certain westerns. High Noon (1952) means a lot to me - I love the purity and the honesty, I love Gary Cooper in that film, the idea of the last man standing. I do not like John Wayne: I find it hard to watch him. I just never took to him. And I don`t like James Stewart as a cowboy. I love him, but just not as a cowboy; Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) is one of my favorite films. I love Frank Capra. I love Preston Sturges. But we`re talking about westerns. ... I have always admired Clint Eastwood`s westerns. The spaghetti westerns were a great discovery. And Pale Rider (1985). As a child, the John Ford film _Cheyenne Autumn_ made a big impression on me. And _Five Easy Pieces_. It`s not really a western, but it is about the possibilities that can be found in the West. Jack Nicholson is sublime in that film, just sublime. It`s the most stultifying portrait of middle-class life. You want to flee from that world and head anywhere less civilized. Which is, of course, the appeal of the West: It`s not tamed yet.

- Daniel Day-Lewis

on her purity ring) I`ve had my ring since I was 12 years old. But for me it`s not something I want to go around saying, "Hey, look what I have". It`s a promise I made to myself and God. I think some people misinterpret that as a trend and think everyone`s getting one.

- Selena Gomez

"Purity of heart is blooming the same colors in the middle of the wilderness when no one sees you."

- Vanna Bonta

There`s a real purity in New Zealand that doesn`t exist in the states. It`s actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It`s a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected.

- Elijah Wood

I always have a rule that acting is acting and truth is truth and you just go out there and you do it. But what happens in each medium is that you have other responsibilities. The acting remains the same, but each medium dictates assuming other halves to make the acting work. When I`m working on a film, I just play the absolute purity of the moments. I don`t worry about the pacing, because the pacing is going to be dictated by the director and the editor. On the stage I have to give pacing to the play. As an actor, you, in fact, become the editor of the piece, in terms of the timing. You are required to engineer the pace yourself. In television, everything is in so close, that you realize that most of what you do has to register in your thought process.

- James Woods

I don`t mind Hollywood. After all, I don`t make movies that are like avant garde or not understandable. I just like to make a mainstream movie with all the edges that existed in the writing and I don`t like to see it flattened out in order to cater to audiences. I don`t really give a shit what people think about my movie after watching it and giving it a test score, but I really care about what you think about it when you see it in its purity, because I don`t feel like I`m going to lose you. I don`t feel like my movies are going to be for everyone because they`re not, because sometimes they`re more adult and that eliminates kids.

- Kevin Costner

In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don`t shoot films any more. There`s more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least have a purity of intent.

- Paul Bettany

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

- Stephen Fry

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

- David Hare

The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

- Guillaume Apollinaire

The Bush administration does not desire to see Islam practiced in its pristine purity.

- Louis Farrakhan

Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek.

- Sun Myung Moon

I like doves. They look so beautiful, like a woman. For me they represent peace and love and purity. And sometimes they`re seen as the messengers of God, so they`re important to me because I`m a Christian.

- John Woo

(Purity is definitely something the Followills kicked under the church pew a long time ago, not only when it comes to their lifestyle but also their music. What critics and fans alike love (or despise) about the Kings` sound is Caleb`s muttered, unkempt delivery and indiscernible lyrics that invite constant analysis.) First I think it was just out of insecurity -- I didn`t want everyone to understand what I was saying, ... But eventually it got to the point where I was proud of the way I was writing and admitting to it.

- Caleb Followill

Half the time when you`re writing songs, the things you`re saying, you don`t realize you`re saying about yourself until you finish. Then you look back on an album you`ve written and put the pieces together, and you`re pointing out your flaws. And that`s the kind of stuff people want to hear. They want to know that it`s normal to fuck up. That`s a lot better than writing about purity.

- Caleb Followill

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

- Leonardo Da Vinci

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn`t come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

- Barry Mann

There is no more important issue than the purity of elections in this state, ... And I will tell ... the court that the elections are not pure.

- John Boyd

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.

- Felix Adler

And their conviction is that if it is done with that kind of purity it will go somewhere. I believe that with all my heart, but I`m not responsible for its going somewhere.

- Daniel Berrigan

The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.

- Richard Moss

And then, the unspeakable purity and freshness of the air! There was just enough heat to enhance the value of the breeze, and just enough wind to keep the whole sea in motion, to make the waves come bounding to the shore, foaming and sparkling, as if wild with glee.

- Aaron Allston

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

- Al Eckert

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

- Alan Cropsey

All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.

- Alex Garwood

From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment.

- Alice Raine

Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor.

- Allan Keller

The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.

- Amanda Kobes

It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning.

- Andre Johnson

It has, therefore, been a favorite boast of the people of Wales and Cornwall, that the original British stock flourishes in its unmixed purity only among them.

- Andrew Bozoian

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

- Andrew Ciferri

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

- Andrew Ciferri

It has been patented. Larry loves the pure part of the game. The things most people think are selfish, he doesn`t think in those terms, like somebody shoots too much. If I was supposed to be the weak side helping and I didn`t come to help my teammates, I`m selfish. Those sorts of things, the purity of the game. His whole game is predicated on players playing for each other, feeling the responsibility for each other and performing.

- Archibald Wavell

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.

- Alfred Hitchcock

When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

- Henri Matisse

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

- Henri Matisse

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

- Arthur Helps

Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible

- Mahatma Gandhi

The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity

- Matthew Henry

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

- Thomas Merton

"I think I`m a man out of place. I love Scotland. You can stand amidst those mountains and fell the history. It emanates all around you. When I`m there, I fantasize about the Celts coming over from Europe in bearskins. And the simplicity and purity of society back then--it wasn`t as complicated or discolored as it is now. I imagine roaming those hills, fighting those battles..."

- Gerard Butler