"I used to go to church. I even went through a rather intense religious period when I was sixteen. But the idea of an everlasting life -- a never-ending banquet, as a stupid visiting minister to our church once appallingly described it -- filled me with a greater terror than the concept of extinction."

-- Louis Auchincloss

#Religious Quotes #Stupid Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“I'm a complete supporter of Obama and kind of in love with him.”

Source : "Catherine Opie: Bearing Witness and the Sublime". Interview with Tracey Harnish, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 03, 2013.
“Advertising says to people, 'Here's what we've got. Here's what it will do for you. Here's how to get it.'”
“The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil”
“Really I just want to get on with my job, which is to pretend to be lots of different people. Simple as that.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Before replays, football telecasts were filled with dead spots... It really destroyed the momentum of the telecasts. Replays gave you something to show during the pauses. It seemed to make the game go faster.”
“There's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.”

Source : Source: www.cbn.com
“... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative perception which applies just as much now as it did in the fifty or hundred or two hundred years since the novel came to life.”
“All lives are tales. Some spread, and grow in the telling. Others are just told between us and the gods, muttered back and forth behind our days, but those tales grow too and shake us just as fierce.”

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