Edward Rowland Sill quotes

“At the punch-bowl's brink, let the thirsty think, what they say in Japan: first the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man!”
-- Edward Rowland Sill

Source : Edward Rowland Sill, “At Dawn”

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“I send my thoughts afar, and let them paint your Christmas Day at home.”
-- Edward Rowland Sill

Source : Edward Rowland Sill (1972). “The Poetical Works of Edward Rowland Sill”

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“Earth bears no balsams for mistakes; Men crown the knave, and scourge the tool That did his will: but thou, O Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool.”
-- Edward Rowland Sill

Source : Edward Rowland Sill, “The Fool's Prayer”

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“We must do the best we can with what we have.”
-- Edward Rowland Sill

“Be satisfied with nothing but your best.”
-- Edward Rowland Sill

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“This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.”

“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”

“Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.”

Source : Song: Almost Lover, Album: One Cell in the Sea, 2007

“Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.”

“Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.”

“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.”

“Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.”

“Yeah, I'd be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film.”

Source : "Interview with Alex Cox and Tod Davies". Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January 2003.

“I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another.”

“My father is 100% Japanese and came to the United States when he was only 18 years old. My grandmother still resides in Japan, which has allowed me to travel to the roots of my ancestors with my father.”