Francis Joseph Sheed Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“One way to prevent conversation from being boring is to say the wrong thing.”
-- Francis Joseph Sheed

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“I've won every debate I've had with an atheist, and never converted even a single one.”
-- Francis Joseph Sheed

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“Humor and absurdism are inevitable. If you look at our current massive flow of consumer products and digital communication and related media from a sort of astute perspective and carefully state what you see you can't help but sounding like you're joking.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
“Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world's first overcommunicated society. Each year we send more and receive less.”
“There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.”
“In the last stage of the spiritual master's life, the devotees of the spiritual master should take preaching activities into their own hands. In this way the spiritual master can sit down in a solitary place and render nirjana-bhajana.”
“The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.”

Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, 1957.
“It would be terribly boring to be earnest.”
“Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.”
“Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A technically perfect photograph can be the world's most boring picture.”

Source : Andreas Feininger (1974). “The Perfect Photograph”
“Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to find fresh meaning in something familiar.”

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