Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. – George Santayana
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. – George Santayana
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. – George Santayana
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. – George Santayana
Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so theyre all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination. – Danny Boyle