1611 Bible Quotes & Sayings

We're asleep, said Suni. Just walking and talking, eating and shitting. Sound asleep.

And we have to be that way, of course, said Anne. It's the human equivalent of fallowness.

Spiritual hibernation, said Suni. — Alice Walker

I am thoroughly tired of the fable style of narrative and shall do my best to get up something entirely different and possibly little more worthy. — George Ade

The long train ride was like traveling through limbo. You weren't anywhere when you were on a train, she decided. You weren't where you had been, and you weren't yet where you were going. You were nowhere. It might be beautiful outside the window-and it was, she had sense enough to realize that-but it wasn't anywhere to her, just a scene passing by that was framed by the train window. (p160) — Katherine Paterson

There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious. — Marianne Moore

Can dimples wink? Because I felt like his just did. — Tia Giacalone

Be that as it may, I have been noticing a statistically significant correlation between excessive childhood exposure to radiation and cancers later in life. — Kim Van Alkemade

Every so often in life, you encounter a brilliant idea. Usually, at least in my case, it's somebody else's idea. — Jean Hanff Korelitz

I see the whole thing popping and parenthesizing in every direction, the story of that house and that kitchen. — Jack Kerouac

That was the first time I saw a horse start from a kneeling position! — Henny Youngman

The possibility of someone different, from somewhere different. — Kami Garcia

The Master doesn't seek fulfillment. For only those who are not full are able to be used which brings the feeling of completeness. — Laozi

Working-class families in the north of England used to hear the 1611 Bible regularly at church and at home ... for us, the language didn't seem too difficult. I especially liked 'the quick and the dead' - you really get a feel for the difference if you live in a house with mice and a mousetrap. — Jeanette Winterson

in fact, vast passages from the King James Version of The Bible had been copied virtually verbatim and spread throughout, comprising almost one eighteenth of The Book of Mormon. Koplanski then went on to further question the veracity of Smith's claim that The Book of Mormon had been originally written in the 1st Century. He did this by pointing out that the near identical King James Version passages included within The Book of Mormon also contained the same italicized words that the KJV translators had inserted into the King James Version when it was completed in 1611, some 200 years before Smith discovered and translated the Gold Plates. — Jack L. Brody

Only our memories allow that some people ever existed. That they mattered, or mattered too much. — Joe R. Lansdale

For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone sees the invisible — Richard Of Saint Victor

Allusion is lovely, and experience with other forms of writing brings the ability to use that device pervasively. This in turn sets high expectations for the reader- in that you are expecting him to pick up on it- and this is a way of respecting your readers. And when you respect your readers, they will come to respect you. — Douglas Wilson