Borromeo Quartet Quotes & Sayings

The fact is, the contest has always been invulnerability, and even when you win, you still lose. — Brenna Yovanoff

Suppose the word mountain meant metaphor, and dog, and Bible, and the United States. Clearly, if a word meant everything, it would mean nothing. If, now, the law of contradiction is an arbitrary convention, and if our linguistic theorists choose some other convention, I challenge them to write a book in conformity with their principles. As a matter of fact it will not be hard for them to do so. Nothing more is necessary than to write the word metaphor sixty thousand times: Metaphor metaphor metaphor metaphor ... . This means the dog ran up the mountain, for the word metaphor means dog, ran, and mountain. Unfortunately, the sentence "metaphor metaphor metaphor" also means, Next Christmas is Thanksgiving, for the word metaphor has these meanings as well. — Gordon H. Clark

As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me. — Bayard Taylor

The danger of Christians reading the Bible confessionally is that we run the risk of reading alone. — Ellen F. Davis

Once I go on stage, the atmosphere is totally theatrical. The greater the illusion, the greater the intensity of the excitement it creates. — Todd Rundgren

How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don't give your chain to jerks! — Bill Crawford

To accept reason is impossible if you don't already possess it. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Making the leap from the best sunglasses company in the world to a world-class brand is a natural transition. — James Jannard

We were not made to eternally weep. — Countee Cullen