Bullpen Blast Quotes & Sayings

I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of the most honorable and delightful in the world. He never institutes a channel for the passage of His bounties that those bounties do not enrich and beautify. — J.G. Holland

It always did bother me that the American public were more interested in me than in my work. And after all there is no sense in it because if it were not for my work they would not be interested in me so why should they not be more interested in my work than in me. That is one of the things one has to worry about in America. — Gertrude Stein

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art. — Richard Avedon

The people living darkness has seen a bright light. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We are all sinners. We are called to a conversion of heart — Pope Francis

Once severe depression has a hold, it is unshakeable until it has run its course or that course has been diverted by treatment. — Sally Brampton

I'm told there's no going back. So I'm choosing forward. — Rachel Cohn

Jesting is often only indigence of intellect. — Jean De La Bruyere

The Hollywood tradition I like best is called sucking up to the stars. — Johnny Carson

You love someone. You don't leave her to drown. And you don't tell her she's crazier than she already knows that she is! — Caitlin R. Kiernan

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. — George Santayana

Those who show off do not shine. — Laozi

Many a family, in order to make a 'proper showing,' will commit itself for a larger and more expensive house than is needed, in an expensive neighborhood. Almost everyone would, it seems, like to keep up with the Joneses. — Ezra Taft Benson

A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it ... — Randall Jarrell