Bafino Quotes & Sayings

Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough. — V.S. Pritchett

Judges are like umpires. Umpires don't make the rules. They apply them. The role of an umpire and a judge is critical. They make sure everybody plays by the rules. But it is a limited role. Nobody ever went to a ballgame to see the umpire. — John Roberts

The more we study the early Church, the more we realize that it was a society of ministers. About the only similarity between the Church at Corinth and a contemporary congregation, either Roman Catholic or Protestant, is that both are marked, to a great degree, by the presence of sinners. — D. Elton Trueblood

Everyday should be a good day to die — Dave Matthews

There was a bright orange glove down there, the kind that lobstermen use. There was even a big lavender sofa cushion. — Carol J. Perry

I dreamt
marvellous error!
that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures. — Antonio Machado

Louis [Leakey] was anxious to initiate a scientific study of these chimpanzees. It would be difficult, he emphasized, for nothing was known; there were no guidelines for such a field study; and the habitat was remote and rugged. Dangerous wild animals would be living there, and chimpanzees themselves were considered at least four times stronger than humans. I remember wondering what kind of scientist he would find for such a herculean task. — Jane Goodall

I have a certain image that's more classic, and I'm happy to stay out of the fray. — Renee Fleming

I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money. — Utah Phillips

The world is crammed with messages. We'll never have time to read them all. — Janette Turner Hospital

Prince Edward confirmed the sentence; but he was reflecting deeply and beginning silently to form views as to how a man destined to great responsibilities should behave. To listen before speaking, to inform yourself before judging, to understand before deciding, and to remember always that there were to be found in every man the springs both of the highest as well as the lowest actions: these, for a sovereign, were the first steps towards wisdom. — Maurice Druon

Join the crazed institution of the stars. — Jethro Tull

You do not own the molecules. They are stardust. They belong to God. What you do own is your soul. Nobody can take that away from you. — Hugh MacLeod

God is a woman, I thought. No doubt about it. — John Knauf

And the rain was brain colored
and the thunder sounded like something remembering something. — Stan Rice