"Go where thou wilt, thou canst not go out of thy Father's ground."

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Source : Thomas Boston (1840). “A soliloquy on the art of man-fishing. Repr”, p.23

Thomas Boston

“I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I'd go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on 'Laugh-In,' Flip Wilson.”
“My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.”
“A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.”
“Charismatics have seen pictures of Pope Francis when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires praying and asking Protestant pastors to pray for him. His friendship towards the charismatic renewal is there.”

Source : Source: www.bostonglobe.com
“Didacticism is the death of art.”
“Jazz is capable of doing much more than depicting the dope fiend and the drunk and the slinky gal. In our show there are many very funny sequences where we were able to use jazz as it can be used-in a happy way.”
“I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate good. . . . If we will take the good we find, . . . we shall have heaping measures. . . .”
“Yeah, some kids called me fish lips because I had these really full lips. Now I'm sure all those same girls are getting collagen injections, so I'm having the last laugh.”

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