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“I said that I loved the wise proverb, Brief, simple and deep; For it I'd exchange the great poem That sends us to sleep.”
Source : Bryan Waller Procter (1857). “Dramatic Scenes ; with Other Poems Now First Printed”, p.269
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“Where,oh,where are the eternity-conscious believers? Where are the souls white-hot for God because they fear His holy name and presence and so live with eternity's values in view?”
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“I am a wife-made man.”
Source : "Who's Who in the Movies". Book by Leslie Halliwell, HarperCollins Entertainment, p. 242, 2001.
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“The World's a Printing-House, our words, our thoughts, Our deeds, are characters of several sizes. Each soul is a Compos'tor, of whose faults The Levites are Correctors; Heaven Revises. Death is the common Press, from whence being driven, We're gather'd, Sheet by Sheet, and bound for Heaven.”
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“I used my pants to illustrate.”
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“I had a teacher who said something great. That was, 'Go out and collect your nos. Once you get fifty nos then you can start wondering when you can get a yes.' He said, 'It is not your job to get the job; its your job to do a consistent body of work. So, every time you go in there, just go in there and be consistent, and eventually it will get noticed and someone will hire you.'”
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“Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or soothing landscape fast, to still this panic. Maybe a field of dracaena, or a vast stand of sugar pines—generous, gum-yielding trees—to fill our minds with vegetable wonder and keep dread at bay.”
Source : Amy Gerstler (2000). “Medicine”, p.21, Penguin
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“Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.”
Source : Garet Garrett (1965). “The People's Pottage”
