"If you pray for an angel to visit you, you know what he'll do if he comes. He'll just quote the scriptures to you - so you know you're wasting your time waiting for what we already have. I'm quite serious about that."

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Source : Hugh Nibley (1989). “Approaching Zion”, Shadow Mountain

Hugh Nibley

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“Looking a dead insect in the sack of basmati that had come all the way from Dehra Dun, he almost wept with sorrow and marvel at its journey, which was tenderness for his own journey. In India almost nobody would be able to afford this rice, and you had to travel around the world to be able to eat such things where they were cheap enough that you could gobble them down without being rich; and when you got home to the place where they grew, you couldn't afford them anymore.”
“You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see If with the camera you can make others see it - that is photography.”
“People keep pushing me to be the center of attention... I would prefer to be on the sidelines, because that's where you see more.”
“Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like.”
“Our goal is to write memorable songs. We're not there yet, but we're getting closer. Each time we sit down to write, we have hopes of coming up with something that will be remembered forever. That's our dream.”
“Everybody writes a book too many.”
“In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.”

Source : Charles Evans Hughes (2000). “The Supreme Court of the United States: Its Foundation, Methods and Achievements”, p.68, Beard Books
“Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.”

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