Assisi Key Quotes & Sayings

People recognize me - but if you've been in the public eye as long as I have and people don't recognize you, I feel bad about myself. — Rickey Henderson

There is nothing earthly that lasts so well, as money. A man's learning dies with him, as does his virtues fade out of remembrance, but the dividends on the stocks he bequeaths to his children live and keep his memory green. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

When a brother is given the right to pass into the third life as a father, then he chooses his greatest rival or his truest friend to give him passage. You. Speaker - ever since I first learned Stark and read The Hive Queen and the Hegemon, I waited for you. I said many times to my father, Rooter, of all humans he is the one who will understand us. Then Rooter told me when your starship came, that it was you and the hive queen aboard that ship, and I knew then that you had come to give me passage, if only I did well."
"You did well, Human. — Orson Scott Card

My state's constitution seems to contain a provision requiring that once every two years we must pass a bill which dazzles the entire country in its glittering, bejeweled stupidity. Not all of them are bad. I rather like the absurd ones. For instance, it is illegal to go whale hunting in Oklahoma. That law is certainly a nice gesture (whales both sing and have giant brains, putting them one point ahead of many legislators). But humpback poaching has never really been problematic in our part of the country, what with it being landlocked and all. — Andrew Heaton

These days, right now, these are the good old days. I've always approached it that way. That's why I'm still working. I'm not the guy who is ready to sit by the pool. — Richard D. Zanuck

Special effects movies have taken over the universe. That and scary movies. — Jami Gertz

Nowadays this is the way everyone loves himself; people wish to live with God in consolations and repose, in wealth and power, and to share the fruition of his glory. We all indeed wish to be God with God, but God knows there are few of us who want to live as men with his Humanity, or want to carry his cross with him, or want to hang on the cross with him and pay humanity's debt to the full. — Hadewijch

Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights. — George Washington

I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11. — Wyclef Jean

Payment processing: As seen, you now can fit a Square peg through a round hole and be a merchant. Education — Scott Stratten

He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer. — Simon Callow

We may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously. Because — Bill Bryson

Hiccup followed him carefully ... and fell over again.
"BRAVO!" clapped Alvin, to Hiccup's surprise.
"But I fell over again" said Hiccup.
"But with such STYLE," said Alvin. "You can't teach that, it's in the blood. — Cressida Cowell

I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis. — Tom Robbins