Notable Quotable
Art
Sola, sola, wo ha, ho, sola!
William Shakespeare
Communication
Headley's first law: When you convey information to another person, that person invariably absorbs said information through the filter of his or her own personal experience.
Headley's second law: The personal experience of an individual is unique and complex and therefore cannot be allowed for, duplicated, or anticipated.
Headley's third law: No matter what you say or how you say it or where or when or why or to whom, no individual is ever going to know exactly what you mean.
Any problem on earth can be solved with the careful application of high explosives. The trick is not to be around when they go off.
Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, Valkyrie
Preaching that only informs without inspiring, or that only confronts without instilling hope, may be orthodox, but it may also be counterproductive.
Jack W. Hayford
Creativity and Inspiration
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein
Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
Neil Gaiman
You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.
Neil Gaiman
When a thought takes ones breath away, a lesson on grammar seems impertinence.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
Charles Mingus
Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
Pablo Neruda
Those who are not dissatisfied will never make any progress.
Shigeo Shingo
It is fine to be zealous, provided the purpose is good.
Paul the Apostle
If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.
Sir Ken Robinson
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
Pablo Picasso
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso
The journey is always the only arrival.
Julia Cameron
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I would please like the recorded to reflect today that I showed up for my part for the job.
Elizabeth Gilbert
The journey is better than the end.
Cervantes
All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake like Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. And there are mere trickles like Jean Rhys. All that matters is feeding the lake, I don’t matter. The lake matters. You must keep feeding the lake.
Jean Rhys
God intends feeling to follow fact and not to be provoked in isolation, independent of the reality from which it springs.
Ravi Zacharias
Creativity is just connecting things.
Steve Jobs
What nobody tells people who are beginners—and I really wish someone had told this to me . . . is that all of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, and it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not.
But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase. They quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know it’s normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story.
It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.
Ira Glass
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Leonardo da Vinci
Mystery is the catalyst for imagination.
J.J. Abrams
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the masters. Seek what they sought.
Matsuo Basho
You can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.
Jack London
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Laurence J. Peter
All creative acts are an attempt at immortality.
Bill Viola
Only the only thing worse than watching a bad movie is being in one.
Elvis Presley
Just as the atom bomb was the weapon that was supposed to render war obsolete, the Internet seems like capitalism’s ultimate feat of self-destructive genius, an economic doomsday device rendering it impossible for anyone to ever make a profit off anything again. It’s especially hopeless for those whose work is easily digitized and accessed free of charge.
Tim Kreider
Creativity’s dirty little secret is that control is not the enemy; control is a necessary ingredient that makes creativity possible.
Ed Gold
A feeling of sadness and linking that is not akin to pain and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.
Edgar Allan Poe
My sole inspiration is a call from a producer.
Cole Porter
To achieve great things two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.
Leonard Bernstein
Discipline and Work
No horse ever gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline. …I firmly believe that any man's finest hour—this greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear—is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle victorious.
Vince Lombardi
Life is tons of discipline.
Robert Frost
Eat the elephant, then the giraffe. Always do the hardest thing first.
Richard Parker
If you want something, go get it. Period.
Chris Gardner
If you have to ask how many calories, you shouldn’t be eating it.
Jeanne Delaney
The real moment of success is the moment not apparent to the crowd.
George Bernard Shaw
Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
Julie Andrews
I was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Whole hog, or nothin’ at all.
Old Southern Phrase
The will to succeed is important, but what's even more important is the will to prepare.
Bobby Knight
To do great work, a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.
Samuel Butler
People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.
Frank Sinatra
Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.
James Baldwin
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Henry Ford
You’ve been making the wrong mistakes.
Thelonius Monk
The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say “no” to almost everything.
Warren Buffet
If you embrace the fact that it's more terrifying to fail than it is to succeed you will achieve insane things.
Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.
Who will teach me to write? The page.
Dreams
[Speaking of his father.] By not encouraging me to be a musician, even though that's all he ever wanted to be, he's made me one. By telling me to never have big dreams or else, that to dream is to be disappointed, he made me have big dreams.
Bono
Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart.
Psalm 37:4
Asok: What can I do to get a raise?
Catburt: Try rewriting the law of supply and demand.
Dilbert
What got you here won’t get you there.
Marshall Goldsmith
Sometimes Christmas makes me cry.
Elena Vega
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
Mark Twain
Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Frederick Douglass
The whole universe before me and here I am on a mudball.
Craig Alan Loewen
If you don't build your dreams, someone will hire you to help build theirs.
Tony A. Gaskins Jr.
Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.
Karim Seddiki
Despair hides mercy behind ignorance. It hides grace behind doubt.
John Macarthur
The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Ah Memoir—when the hog of adulthood is too hot, he must wallow in the mud of the past.
Patricia Lockwood
Eggs
Put all your eggs in one basket and—WATCH THAT BASKET!
Mark Twain
A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg.
Samuel Butler
What’s the use? Yesterday an egg, tomorrow a feather duster.
Mark Fenderson
I can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs.
William Shakespeare
I've decided life is too fragile to finish a book I dislike just because it cost $16.95 and everyone else loved it. Or eat a fried egg with a broken yolk (which I hate) when the dog would leap over the St. Louis Arch for it.
Erma Bombeck
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
Arnold H. Glasow
I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without any holes… have you ever seen anything more revolting than an egg yolk breaking and spilling its yellow liquid? Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting. I’ve never tasted it.
Alfred Hitchcock
Excellence
Excellence is an art won by training and habitation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
Do it right the first time, for you may not receive another opportunity.
Unknown
Bob Dylan taught me this: You should let people down. You do not have to live up to people's expectations. And if they have them, well, let them down.
Bono
Good is the enemy of great.
Jim Collins
Don’t try to become a person of importance. Try to become a person of value.
Albert Einstein
Even a turkey can fly in a tornado.
Dave Ramsey
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
Colin Powell
Fame
My parents told me that you’re not good because you’re famous, but you become famous because you’re good.
Paloma Picasso
I remember your name perfectly, but I just can’t think of your face.
William Archibald Spooner
In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.
Andy Warhol
Friendship
Come on, Mr. Frodo, I can’t carry it for you but I can carry you.
Samwise Gamgee
God and Truth
The question is not about how much faith you have, it’s about what the object of your faith is.
Mary Veilleux
Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
Georges Braque
The greatest truths are the simplest: and so are the greatest men.
A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare
We cannot fathom the mystery of a single flower. Nor is it intended that we should.
John Locke
The longest way must have its close—the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The letters in "SILENT" also spell "LISTEN."
Unknown
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
C. S. Lewis
Dear God, all I can do is stammer to You. I can do nothing but hold out my heart to you. You created us in your likeness. Our hearts are uneasy until they find peace in You. Amen.
Sophie Scholl
Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
Jonathan Edwards
I am beginning now to see how radically different the character of my spiritual journey will change when I no longer think of God as hiding out and making it as difficult as possible for me to find him, but, instead, as the one who is looking for me while I am doing the hiding.
Henri Nouwen
To escape the error of salvation by works, [many professing Christians] have fallen into the opposite error of teaching salvation without obedience.
A. W. Tozer
And then I saw only one set of footprints in the sand and I asked God, "Where were you in my time of need!? And why are those footprints huge?" Then God replied, "You were asleep. I hired a hobbit to carry you."
Daniel Shores
A stronghold is a temptation that we have repeatedly given in to.
Michael Dean
Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
And I think the conclusion of the matter for me was that I think I would rather live on the verge of falling and let my security be in the all-sufficiency of the grace of God than to live in some kind of pietistic illusion of moral excellence. Not that I don't want to be morally excellent, but my faith isn't in the idea that I'm more moral than anybody else. My faith is in the idea that God—and His love—are greater than whatever sins any of us commit.
Rich Mullins
Soli Deo Gloria.
Johann Sebastian Bach
The struggle is the sign of holiness. A saint is a sinner that keeps trying.
St. Josemaria Escriva
Humanity
We live in a time when man, lord of all things, is not lord of himself.
José Ortega y Gasset
We can control the movements of a spaceship orbiting about a distant planet, but we cannot control the situation in Northern Ireland.
Arthur Koestler
I often marvel how it is that, though each man loves himself beyond all else, he should yet value his own opinion of himself less than that of others.
Marcus Aurelius
If you sacrifice principle for unity, you will obtain neither.
Unknown
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
Robert Frost
You may meet a man and think him cold when he is merely sad.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
One thing you can’t hide is when you’re crippled inside.
John Lennon
Sleep deprivation is one of the most common causes of stupidity in mildly intelligent people.
The Calamitous Cranium Boy
Hurt people, hurt people.
Rick Warren
If you don’t release those who have hurt you, you will begin to resemble them.
Rick Warren
And now, with God's help, I shall become myself.
Søren Kierkegaard
Marriage doesn’t create problems; it reveals problems that already exist in each person.
Rev. Jim Dobbs
Depression is simply anger without enthusiasm.
Steven Wright
People would rather be embarrassed publicly than ignored privately.
Bob Reno
I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes of use.
Donald Miller
In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war…
2 Samuel 11:1, 1 Chronicles 20:1
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
Lewis B. Smedes
Every man is broken into twenty-four hour fractions. It’s a daily pantomime, one man yielding control to the next: a backstage crowded with old hacks clamoring for their turn in the spotlight. Every week, every day. The angry man hands the baton over to the sulking man, and in turn to the sex addict, the introvert, the conversationalist. Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots.
From Momento Mori
The average person has one breast and one testicle.
Dixie Lee Ray
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde
Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Macbeth
I wonder who it was defined man as a rationally animal. It was the most premature definition ever given.
Lord Henry in The Picture of Dorian Gray
Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
Unknown
If I look at the masses, I will never act. If I look at the one, I will.
Mother Theresa
Life is not linear; it's organic. We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relationship to circumstances they help create for us.
Humor
How wrong Emily Dickinson was! Hope is not the thing with feathers. The thing with feathers turned out to be my nephew. I must take him to a specialist in Zurich.
Woody Allen
Humor is a very effective vehicle for delivering a more serious thought, not the end in itself. It is often the sugar coating on a more bitter pill.
Pat Oliphant
So what’s with the outfit, Lemon? Did the people from the makeover show finally respond to your letter?
Jack Donaghy
Leadership
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Ralph Nader
Attitude reflect leadership, Captain.
Julius in Remember the Titans
Nothing happens until someone provides leadership for it.
Rick Warren
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it. To know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
Charles Caleb Colton
Leadership is action, not position.
Donald H. McGannon
Most churches are over-managed and under-led.
Rick Warren
Leaders are readers.
Unknown
It’s th’ rich folks. They start all the wars—and then yell at us poor folks to come do their dying for them.
Woody Guthrie
The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so.
Ennius
Life
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs along the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
Crowfoot
It is the simplicity of your ordinary work, in the monotonous details of each day, that you have to find the secret, which is hidden from so many, of something great and new: Love.
Saint Josemaria
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.
Jim Elliot
My steps were bathed in butter, and the rock poured out for me streams of oil.
Job 29:6
Your calling is simply to be who you were created to be in the place God assigns you.
Gary Barkalow
What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
Mark 8:36
McDonald’s are like dandelions.
Jeanne Dean
If you gonna be dumb you’d better be tough.
John Owen
My problem is I know too much about too many things.
Michael Nei
It don't take long to kill things, not like it does to grow.
Homer Bannon
It’s such a fine line between stupid and clever.
David St. Hubbins
Just because the microphone in front of you amplifies your voice around the world is no reason to think we have any more wisdom than we had when our voices could reach only from one end of the bar to the other.
Ed Murrow
Literature and Writing
Much pride and little understanding come from the hasty reading of a book.
Charles H. Spurgeon
You can learn to love tinkering with drafts of poems till a warm hand from somewhere above you reaches down, unscrews the top of your head, and drops in a solution that blows your ears off.
Ted Kooser
The large is present in the small...
Ted Kooser
He knew how to keep his attention in the specifics and to let the grand emerge from carefully observed particulars.
Ted Kooser
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
Robert Frost
You sit at your keyboard and make up lies until they sound like the truth.
Brian K. Vaughan
The pen has become to me what the oar is to the galley slave.
C. S. Lewis
Every stranger's tolerance for poetry is compromised by much more important demands on his or her time. Therefore, I try to honor my reader's patience and generosity by presenting what I have to say as clearly and succinctly as possible… Also, I try not to insult the reader's good sense by talking down; I don't see anything to gain by alluding to intellectual experiences that the reader may not have had. I do what I can to avoid being rude or offensive; most strangers, understandably, have a very low tolerance for displays of pique or anger or hysteria. Being harangued by a poet rarely endears a reader. I am also extremely wary of over cleverness; there is a definite limit to how much intellectual showing off a stranger can tolerate.
Ted Kooser
Drama begins when ritual is broken.
Martin Epstein
Ends are ends only when they are not negative but frankly transfigure the events in which they were immanent.
Frank Kermode
It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word.
Alexander Smith
Shall we forever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another? Are we forever to be twisting and untwisting the same rope?
Laurence Sterne
Action is the enemy of suspense…action releases tension instead of building it.
Roger Ebert
Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.
George Orwell
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love
It’s better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
Unknown
The prostitute reduces you to a loaf of bread.
Proverbs 6:26
Money
Saving money is actually another way of making money.
Elvis Costello
Music
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
Elvis Costello
Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
Frank Zappa
Groove keeps you workin', chops keep you practicing in your basement.
Brian Haley
Most guitar playing in the rock era is white guys redoing black riffs.
Bono
We got fed up of being sidemen for Paul. Paul took over and supposedly led us. What's leading us when you wander around in circles?
John Lennon
He was working with two brilliant songwriters and he learned a lot from us. I wouldn't have minded being George, the invisible man, and learning what he learned.
John Lennon
Best drummer in the world? He's not even the best drummer in The Beatles.
John Lennon
I don’t appreciate worship of dead Sid Vicious or of dead James Dean or of dead John Wayne. It’s the same thing. Making Sid Vicious a hero, Jim Morrison—it’s garbage to me. I worship the people who survive. I’ll take the living and the healthy.
John Lennon
My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
John Lennon
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Kin Hubbard
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Elvis Presley
The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.
Hunter S. Thompson
There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.
Arthur Honegger
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
Igor Stravinsky
A motive consists of both a set of intervals and a set of durations. The composer may alter one of the other and maintain recognizable identity with the original motive; however, when both have been changed, a new motive is created.
Arnold Schönberg
Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian.
Roger Fry
Get around, be on the scene, play it clean, be seen, be keen, and be over eighteen.
Willie “The Lion” Smith
[Jazz], as I understand it, is not music at all. It is merely an irritation of the nerves of hearing, a sensual teasing of the strings of physical passion. Its fault likes not in syncopation, for that is a legitimate device when sparingly used. But ‘jazz’ is an unmitigated cacophony, a combination of disagreeable sounds in complicated discords, a willful ugliness and a deliberate vulgarity.
Henry van Dyke
More than four choruses and you’re just practicing.
Charlie Parker
The things I’m looking for musically are clarity, emotional communication on a not-too-obvious level, form in a chorus that doesn’t hit you over the head but is there if you look for it, humor, and construction that sounds logical in an unexpected way. That, and a good dependable high F-sharp.
Paul Desmond
Music is worship: whether it’s worship of women or their designer, the world or its destroyer…the smoke goes upwards…to God or something you replace God with…usually yourself.
Bono
We generally go for a pretty straight definitive version of what the song sounds like it should be and then deconstruct it a little bit and see if there's some more exciting way to approach it.
There's no reason at all not to destroy it. We made it so it's ours to destroy and that’s liberating and exciting in a really creative way.
Jeff Tweedy
Ringo Starr is perhaps the luckiest man in the world.
Jamie Leonard
Midtempo is hell—you can’t have a log-jam of those songs.
Adam Clayton
The thing I bristle at is this idea that artists—or musicians- or people that are creative suffer more than anyone else. I think that is patently false. I think that everybody suffers. I think that this world is kind of build on how well you cope with you suffering…I’m no different from anyone else in that regard.
Jeff Tweedy
I am not satisfied with those who despise music, as all fanatics do; for music is an endowment and a gift of God, not a gift of other persons. It also drives away the devil and makes people cheerful, one forgets all anger, unchasteness, pride, and other vices. I place music next to theology and give it the highest praise.
Martin Luther
It's a fine line between writing something with genuine emotional impact and turning into little idiots feeling sorry for ourselves and playing stadium rock.
Thom Yorke
The aim and final reason of all music is none else but the glory of God.
Johann Sebastian Bach
The punk thing doesn’t work for me. I’d rather spend a day with Johnny Cash anytime…you can only get so far with rage.
Bono
Jazz is the ultimate lesson in faith
Meshell Ndegeocello
We don’t see rock & roll as being about coke-taking, leather-trouser-wearing rebellion, because that to us is not rebellion any more.
Chris Martin
I didn't want to become one of those thinning-haired, jowly old geezers who still does the same shtick they did when they were young, slim and beautiful. That's revolting and rather tragic.
Nick Lowe
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
G. K. Chesterton
Our songs are not the cause of our loss of the sense of God's greatness, though songs are surprisingly influential. No, our songs reflect this loss. Singing God-centered hymns is desirable, but more than that is needed. We sing what we feel, what we believe. When once we rediscover the greatness of God, we will sing it. Our song will echo our conviction.
Tom Wells
The most difficult things written by one perfectly versed in the difficulties of the keyboard are far easier to play than the easiest things conceived by an amateur.
Robert Schumann
Do not accept anything as the truth if it lacks love. And do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
Edith Stein
I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.
Johann Sebastian Bach
The final aim and reason of all music is nothing other than the glorification of God and the refreshment of the spirit.
Johann Sebastian Bach
You write something because you couldn’t improvise it, and you improvise something because it couldn’t be written.
Christian Wallumrød
Politics
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
Henry Kissinger
When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.
Edward R. Murrow
Samuel Goldwyn
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
Anyone who would go to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined!
Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
Flashbacks are a thing of the past.
I'll give you a definite maybe.
If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
Include me out.
What we need now is some new, fresh clichés.
When I want your opinion I will give it to you.
In two words: im-possible.
I read part of it all the way through.
We’ve passed a lot of water since then.
Women
Our society has lifted up women only to throw them back down again.
Linda Fumea
Worship
Man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
C. S. Lewis
An ill-prepared worship leader becomes distractingly visible, pulling people away from, not toward, God.
Kent Morris
To sing the praises of God upon the harp and psaltery," says Calvin, "unquestionably formed a part of the training of the law and of the service of God under that dispensation of shadows and figures, but they are not now to be used in public thanksgiving.
John Calvin