Archimbaud Obituary Quotes & Sayings

As seminary students Jim and friends examined the Bible to find every reference to the poor - and they found more than two thousand. In fact, they concluded one of every sixteen verses was about the poor. Then a zealous friend decided to cut out every Bible verse about the poor to see what the Bible would look like. As he tells the story, that old Bible literally was in shreds. It wouldn't hold together. It was a Bible full of holes. — Scot McKnight

Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or 'outsideness' without laying stress on the emotion of fear. — H.P. Lovecraft

You would never hear any song played twice in the same way. The words were retained, but within a certain frame there was great latitude, and the musician could improvise to his heart's content; and the more the variations and combinations, the greater the musician. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

I am the owner of my life, so hold your tongue and let me live. — Debasish Mridha

I am confident that life once thrived on Mars and may well still exist there today. — Craig Venter

The way you feel is not my problem. — Jhene Aiko

You allowed me existence, which is the sum of what one can demand of his fellow-beings — George MacDonald

When he was about twelve or thirteen he walked into his parents' bedroom in the half-house on Jackson Road not expecting his father to be there, and the old man was standing in front of his bureau in just socks and an undershirt, innocently fishing in a drawer for his undershorts, that boxer style that always looked sad and dreary to Harry anyway, and here was his father's bare behind, such white buttocks, limp and hairless, mute and helpless flesh that squeezed out shit once a day and otherwise hung there in the world like linen that hadn't been ironed ... — John Updike

My gray zone is starting to include poetry here white is not absolute white black is not absolute black the edges of these non-colors adjoin — Tadeusz Rozewicz

I do feel it's important to have some kind of faith in something, but [it is] impossible for many of us. I personally don't have any faith in anything, but it's great if you can. — Woody Allen

It's an awful thing to be the target. — Emily St. John Mandel