Archdeacon Cambridge Quotes & Sayings

Isn't this your life? That ancient kiss
still burning out your eyes? Isn't this defeat
so accurate, the church bell simply seems
a pure announcement: ring and no one comes?
Don't empty houses ring? Are magnesium
and scorn sufficient to support a town,
not just Philipsburg, but towns
of towering blondes, good jazz and booze
the world will never let you have
until the town you came from dies inside? — Richard Hugo

I didn't read comics, growing up. I watched a lot of movies, and those were my comic books. And then, my exposure really increased by becoming affiliated with Spider-Man. — Emma Stone

If anything, I feel that the current generation of listeners of heavy music are progressing a bit passed their gateway bands and are digging deeper than they used to and understanding more abrasive and complex music and art. It's like being around an unfamiliar language long enough that it eventually begins to make sense. — Jacob Bannon

Success never goes on sale, but most spend their whole life dickering over the cost, never making the purchase. — Orrin Woodward

Once they have you asking the wrong questions. They don't have to worry about the answers. — Thomas Pynchon

The entire universe is working against me. I can't believe the entire universe could be that foolish! — Craig Bruce

I don't worry about new home sales — James K. Glassman

Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects. — Dalai Lama

I was dating a transvestite, and my mother said, 'Marry him. You'll double your wardrobe.' — Joan Rivers

The Bible give us a list of human stories on both sides of the ledger. On list of human stories is used examples - do what these people did. Another list of human stories is used as warnings - don't do what these people did. So if your story ever gets in one of these books, make sure they use it as an example, not a warning. — Jim Rohn

To not realize one's dreams is a shame; to not reach for them is a tragedy — Jason Alan

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years. — Washington Irving

For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is a true thing. Criticism isn't written for poets, it's written for other readers. One hopes it is true for other readers if it's true for oneself. — Helen Vendler

For me, the walk of the character is always the first part that I must define for myself. — Halle Berry

I think that one of the positions we have taken around the question of race, is that we already know. We know. We know. We know. And so we don't need to look at it again. And yet everybody is still upset. Everybody is still being driven by their outrageous imagination to the point of killing people because they feel that a black man in front of them is a demon, or the Incredible Hulk. — Claudia Rankine