"I'm not observant, personally, but if I ever see a priest resurrect the dead before my eyes I promise to revisit my atheism."

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Source : "Game of Thrones, Season 3" by Rachael Larimore, Matthew Yglesias, www.slate.com. May 13, 2013.

Matthew Yglesias

#Eye Quotes #Promise Quotes #Atheism Quotes

“We don't want to live in the dark moods of imponderable mystery, but neither do we want to miss them altogether. they allow us to emerge from the tender sadness of the manger to sing with the angels in the skies above...”

Source : Robert Morgan (2005). “Come Let Us Adore Him: Stories Behind the Most Cherished Christmas Hymns”, p.73, Thomas Nelson Inc
“We have lots of studies about what's wrong with our education system. We need to accept responsibility, be bold, find solutions and move forward to make education a centerpiece of our economic development.”
“Vain Art of the Fugue was the only one of my novels to be met with relative public recognition: it was nominated for the Prix MÃ©dicis by Alain Robbe-Grillet. Milan Kundera pocketed the prize instead and the public never clamored to buy it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.”
“I'm not a one-stop music shop with jazz improv in aisle 3 and country and western in aisle 4. I have a fairly focused and established kind of melody and approach, so people know what they're getting into when they go into business with me.”

Source : "Nine Inch Nails' Charlie Clouser makes American Horror Story and Saw sound creepy". Interview With Alex McLevy, www.avclub.com. July 2, 2016.
“The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.”
“Imagine driving a car that isn't working well. When you step on the gas the car sometimes lurches forward and sometimes doesn't respond. When you blow the horn it sounds blaring. The brakes sometimes slow the car, but not always. The blinkers work occasionally, the steering is erratic, and the speedometer is inaccurate. You are engaged in a constant struggle to keep the car on the road, and it is difficult to concentrate on anything else.”
“Photography is about being exquisitely present.”

Source : Colin Westerbeck, Joel Meyerowitz (2001). “Joel Meyerowitz”, Phaidon Press

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