"Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford; and reputation bleeds in every word."

-- Charles Churchill

#Mirth Quotes #Reputation Quotes #Slander Quotes

“Ethernet always wins.”
“I hope that some day scientists can be considered heroes again, instead of Paris Hilton.”
“For I choose to follow not men or men's doctrines, but God and the doctrines [delivered] by Him. For if you have fallen in with some who are called Christians, but who do not admit this [truth], and venture to blaspheme the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; who say there is no resurrection of the dead, and that their souls, when they die, are taken to heaven; do not imagine that they are Christians”

Source : Justin Martyr, Aeterna Press (2016). “Dialogue of Justin With a Jew”, p.98, Aeterna Press
“People will always choose more money over more sex”
“If you admire somebody, you should go ahead and tell them. People never get the flowers while they can still smell them.”
“To me, my nephew is the angel of my world. It is my absolute happiest moment whenever he smiles at me.”
“To make images is a way of ordering one's world, of exploring and understanding one's relationship to existence. ... The images we make are often ahead of our understanding, but to say "yes" to a subject is also to have recognized, however dimly, a part of oneself; to live with that image, to accept its significance is perhaps to grow in understanding.”
“I guess I think of a musical as something in which the music is sort of like the engine of the piece - whether it is in the theatre or in film.”

Source : "InDepth InterView: John Kander". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. November 2, 2010.

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