Advanced Banter Quotes & Sayings

The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding. — Chris Van Allsburg

People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are. — Marcel Proust

Never speak ill of the dead, insult his kin instead. — Brian Spellman

Community is gathering around a fire and listening to someone tell a story. — Bill Maher

Swimming has its educational value - mental, moral, and physical - in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb. — Robert Baden-Powell

There's a large part of me that's four years old. I wake up in the morning and I know that somewhere there's a cookie. I don't know where it is but I know it's mine and I have to go find it. That's how I live my life. My life is amazingly filled with fun. — Newt Gingrich

the Pharisees, and the other self-justifying Jews, who though that they needed no repentance, and that therefore God should abundantly rejoice in them, and make his boast of them, as those that were most his honour; but Christ tells them that it was quite otherwise, that God was more praised in, and pleased with, the penitent broken heart of one of those despised, envied sinners, than all the long prayers which the scribes and Pharisees made, who could not see any thing amiss in themselves. Nay, — Matthew Henry

Profound, bottomless self-doubt - it has no value - what's the point? In a way, it takes up as much time as anything else. — Jonathan Safran Foer