"When the Mass is being celebrated, the sanctuary is filled with countless angels, who adore the Divine Victim immolated on the altar."

-- Saint John Chrysostom

#Angel Quotes #Sanctuary Quotes #Victim Quotes

“You know what Gordie Howe got for a signing bonus? A team jacket!”

Source : "Fictional character: Murray Chadwick". "Youngblood", www.imdb.com. January 31, 1986.
“He [Bernardo Bertolucci] has the kind of talent that breaks one's heart: where can it go, what will happen to it? In this country we encourage 'creativity' among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow 'too much.' Well, Before the Revolution is too much and that is what is great about it. Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough.”
“Scarlett O'Hara didn't think she was manipulating. That's just the way she got what she wanted.”
“Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.”
“Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too unlikely, too preposterous.”

Source : Walter Abish (1980). “How German Is It”, p.44, New Directions Publishing
“I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade.”
“Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times!”
“The Nick Boles text is kiboshed [Mike] Gove's chances. It undermined people's confidence in him. It made it look as if he's been conspiring all along. It did more damage to his reputation than anything else.”

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