Alien Jonesy Quotes & Sayings

Miracles happen, not in opposition to Nature, but in opposition to what we know of Nature. — Augustine Of Hippo

Shay Given is champing on the door to be involved this weekend — Alex McLeish

Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

That was quite an adventure, stopping at a different house each night, seeing new country,. — Jack Williamson

Whereas life separates meaning from emotion, art unites them. Story is an instrument by which you create such epiphanies at will, the phenomenon known as aesthetic emotion ... Life on its own, without art to shape it, leaves you in confusion and chaos, but aesthetic emotion harmonizes what you know with what you feel to give you a heightened awareness and a sureness of your place in reality. — Robert McKee

I thought again about throwing language all over a scene, wondered if the emotional mystery of one's response to place doesn't lie in the inchoate play of possible words, of felt meanings and poetries, of the sublime, the romantic, the picturesque, Zen; even, perhaps, something new. And perhaps that twinge of disappointment one always feels at the words chosen - and thus also at the glorious scene-comes from the dream that in that instant of indecision and all-decision before your mind clarified its response to beauty, you just might have held within you language finally saturated with all the earth's meaning." Page 211 — Daniel Duane

What takes the power out of that great, intimidating consciousness of external evaluation and steadies our hearts once again is the truth that the opinions of man do not count before God. — Anna Blanc

he remembered her begging him not to run for office, saying that it would change him, that he couldn't fix anything up there, but that he could sure as hell come home broken. — Hugh Howey