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“Now, 'Dasher!' now, 'Dancer!' now, 'Prancer' and 'Vixen!' On, 'Comet!' on, 'Cupid!' on, 'Donner' and 'Blitzen!'”
Source : Clement Clarke Moore (1973). “The night before Christmas in signed English”, Clerc
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“I’d rather be a straight ‘self-proclaimed homosexual’ than a racist, ignorant, hate-filled bigot in Rise Up Australia any day. This party wants to end multiculturalism and discriminate against anyone different. What this mob intends as a grievous insult, I take as a compliment. Long live equal rights.”
Source : FaceBook post by Adam Bandt from Feb 12, 2013 
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“I'm very stodgy. I'm always looking at old photos of California and Los Angeles, knowing that what I'm looking at is now full of houses. There used to be vacant lots in Los Angeles, now all taken up by three-storey boxes - it's all getting infilled.”
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“If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.”
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“I'm a risk taker, so I have come to accept that at times I will fail. To me, that is better than not trying at all.”
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“The trouble with having a place for everything is how often it gets filled up with everything else.”
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“It's about bums on seats. If nobody wants to listen to what you are doing, it kind of defeats the purpose really, doesn't it?”
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“There are multitudes in our congregations who are just waiting while they ought to be acting. They must work, if they would have God work in them. There can be no religion without obedience.”
Source : Ichabod Smith Spencer (1856). “A pastor's sketches: or, Conversations with anxious inquirers respecting the way of salvation. With an intr. and ed. notes, by J.A. James”, p.23
