Joan of Arcadia (TV Series)

Secret Service (2005)

Mike Starr: Big Tough Guy God

Quotes 

• Big Tough Guy God : Hey, there, Joanie.

  Joan Girardi : I'm still waiting. I don't know why you had to put me through all this. Nothing added up. Nothing happened.

  Big Tough Guy God : Things happened.

  Joan Girardi : Where? When?

  Big Tough Guy God : Why are you doubting me?

  Joan Girardi : Before, when you'd tell me what to do, maybe I'd screw up and stuff, but by the end, I would see something.

  Big Tough Guy God : So you think you had no effect?

  Joan Girardi : Yeah.

  Big Tough Guy God : Ah. You remember Emily Dickinson?

  Joan Girardi : Yeah. You can sing all of her poems to "Yellow Rose of Texas".

  [he looks confused] 

  Joan Girardi : [singing]  Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me.

  Big Tough Guy God : Hmm. "Faith is the pierless bridge supporting what we see, unto the same we do not, too slender for the eye."

  Joan Girardi : I don't think that goes with "Yellow Rose of Texas".

  Big Tough Guy God : Seeing the results of your actions is not important. Only the actions are. Like a recluse who wrote poems she never published. Yet here they are, touching people a hundred years later. Your work out is out there, Joanie. You just got to have faith.