Air Guitar Championship Quotes & Sayings

I mentioned early in this book the kind of rereading distinctive of a fan
the Tolkien addict, say, or the devotee of Jane Austen or Trollope or the Harry Potter books. The return to such books is often motivated by a desire to dwell for a time in a self-contained fictional universe, with its own boundaries and its own rules. (It is a moot question whether Austen and Trollope's first readers were drawn to their novels for these reasons, but their readers today often are.) Such rereading is not purely a matter of escapism, even though that is one reason for its attraction: we should note that it's not what readers are escaping from but that they are escaping into that counts most. Most of us do not find fictional worlds appealing because we find our own lives despicable, though censorious people often make that assumption. Auden once wrote that "there must always be ... escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep." The sleeper does not disdain consciousness. — Alan Jacobs

The final word is love. — Dorothy Day

No more Botox for me. Betty White's bowels move more than my face. — Joan Rivers

Be still, and know that I am God. I know I sometimes do. Countless times I've sat down to try to be still and holy. It's never worked very well. Only recently when I was studying this passage did I realize my misunderstanding of the text: the original Hebrew root of Be still doesn't mean "be quiet"; it means "let go." That's very different, don't you think? Let go and know that I am God! Let go of trying to control your spouse! Let go of your worry about your finances! Let go of your unforgiveness! Let go of your past! Let go of what you can't control - and rest in the knowledge that God is in control! — Sheila Walsh

I tell you what. Pick it up, open it anywhere, and read three pages. If you can put it down again, I'll pay you a dollar. — Diana Gabaldon

The bitter cups of earth will give a relish to the new wine that sparkles in the golden bowls of heaven. Our — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination. — Brian K. Vaughan

There is nothing boring in life except ourselves. — Nadia Boulanger

We cannot and must not allow ourselves to have the message of Hiroshima and Nagasaki fade completely from our minds, and we cannot allow our vision or ideals to fade, either. For if we do, we have but one course left for us. And that flash of light will not only rob us of our vision, but it will rob us of our lives, our progeny, and our very existence. — Tadatoshi Akiba

Japan appears to be the birthplace of the soup and the home of the stew. — Neil MacGregor