297974 Quotes & Sayings

At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum in the neighborhood of $10,000, about 10 times more money than I could get my hands on at the time. — Mark Edwards

This book, for me, is less an exercise in recall than exorcism. — Jerry Stahl

Grace to me is a little bit of extra help when you're feeling stuck or doomed or, probably, hopefully, out of good ideas on how to save yourself, and how to salvage the situation or the friendship or the whatever it is," Anne Lamott once told me. "I wish it was accompanied by harp music so you could know that's what was happening, but for me it's that extra pause or that extra breath or that extra minute's patience against all odds." On that first trip to Ireland, grace - the kick-in-the-pants, clarifying, cosmic-pause-button kind of grace - didn't just have a harp. It had an entire soundtrack ... — Cathleen Falsani

Government isn't a good way to solve problems ... [G]overnment is concerned mostly with self-perpetuation and is subject to fantastic ideas about its own capabilities ... [G]overnment is wasteful of the nation's resources, immune to common sense and subject to pressure from every half-organized bouquet of assholes ... [G]overnment is distrustful of and disrespectful toward average Americans while being easily gulled by Americans with money, influence or fame. — P. J. O'Rourke

By the work one knows the workman. — Jean De La Fontaine

The first item on a spiritual agenda is that I am not what I do, that I am what I am, and therefore I am a walking miracle, on a daily basis. — Malachy McCourt

Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry. — Oliver Cromwell

It's easy to love someone you haven't let down. — Elliott Holt

This is ridiculous, Maggie. I'm going to tell him to put his shirt back on." She gives me an evil eye. "Don't you dare. You'll cause a riot. — Jillian Dodd

You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason he is to be loved. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved. — Dolly Parton