"I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books."

-- Gary Paulsen

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes

“Historically, Hollywood comedy has arrived in skinny envelopes. From fence post Buster Keaton to herky-jerky Jerry Lewis to wiry nerve-bundle Woody Allen to hung-loose Richard Pryor to whippy contortionist Jim Carrey, its comics and clowns have tended to be sliced thin and bendable.”
“My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling, won't you play with my ding-a-ling.”
“I can't eat before I go onstage because I've learnt that burping on stage isn't a good thing. It's all about acid reflux.”

Source : "Jessie Ware: 'I'm such a bully about food'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2013.
“God may thunder His commands from Mount Sinai and men may fear, yet remain at heart exactly as they were before. But let a man once see his God down in the arena as a Man-suffering, tempted, sweating, and agonized, finally dying a criminal's death-and he is a hard man indeed who is untouched.”

Source : John Bertram Phillips (1984). “The newborn Christian: 114 readings from J.B. Phillips”, Macmillan Pub Co
“There is an attitude in the media that is dishonestly reinforcing negative stereotypes about Christians.”
“If your starting point for understanding humanity is a racialist viewpoint, with superiority and inferiority projected onto people because of the color of their skin, then it's so easy to take the next step of justifying that point theologically and reading it into the Christian scripture. And that makes it harder to understand what scripture is actually saying!”

Source : Source: reflections.yale.edu
“Him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelÃ¨d throne, the Cherub Contemplation.”
“The specific course you decide upon is, within certain parameters, less important than the vigor with which you execute it.”

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