top of page
Quote_1.png
David Antin

"From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us."

Standard 
 Customized
"From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us."

Exlpore more God quotes

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."

God,
Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way.""

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Without the Mind, there is no God. Without you, there is no God."

Explore more quotes by David Antin

Quote_1.png
David Antin
"From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us."
Quote_1.png
David Antin
"I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go."
Quote_1.png
David Antin
"There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation."
Quote_1.png
David Antin
"While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song."
Quote_1.png
David Antin
"I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James."
Quote_1.png
David Antin
"The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer."
Quote_1.png
David Antin
"It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel."
Quote_1.png
David Antin
"I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out."
Quote_1.png
David Antin
"I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty."
Quote_1.png
David Antin
"There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be."
bottom of page