Bumpous Jeffrey Quotes & Sayings

In Ireland, the tribes are called after the founder, as the Hy Conaill, Hy Fiachra, or sons of Conal, sons of Fiech, through grand, great-grand, and great-great-grandchildren. — Sabine Baring-Gould

When the motives of artists are profound, when they are at their work as a result of deep consideration, when they believe in the importance of what they are doing, their work creates a stir in the world. — Robert Henri

The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth. — Saint Augustine

In the West, people pride themselves on being the defenders of democratic rights and the champions of freedom. But if the Western world really cares for the benevolence of the whole world, it will have to turn to introspection. — Nirmala Srivastava

One conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study in a public school. — D.B. Patterson

The prevailin' weakness of most public men is to Slop Over! ... G. Washington never slopt over. — Artemas Ward

I really liked the design aesthetic of the mid-century modern for furniture and the early '60s stuff for the clothes. But then, personally, I'm a huge fan of 1970s muscle cars. Cell phones is just a laziness thing because it's so much easier to have somebody have a cell phone than have to go to a phone booth. So we're sort of, I guess, cherry-picking the best and easiest from several decades. — Adam Reed

As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me. — James Ellroy

The public relations warriors fought and lost Monte Carlo's Battle of the Magazine Covers. — John Vinocur

China was the most optimistic place I'd ever been. Everybody I met was pretty much convinced that their children would have it better than their parents had had it. It was like being in America in the 1950's, with this deep optimism about the future because everything was getting better, and that fascinated me. — Neil Gaiman

He was one of ourselves, a man of our blood and our bone, but one who has suffered and has seen so much more deeply than we have his insight impresses us as wisdom ... that wisdom of the heart which we seek that we may learn from it how to live. All his other gifts came to him from nature, this he won for himself and through it he became great. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If you could leave your selfishness, you would see how you've been torturing your soul. — Rumi

It seems to me that we do live in two worlds ... there is this physical one, which is coherant, and there is the spiritual one, which to the average man with his flashes of religious experience, is very often incoherant. This experience of having two worlds to live in all the time, or not all the time, is a vital one, and is what living is like. — William Golding