Bunburying Importance Quotes & Sayings

The thing that strikes you most about being a soldier in a war zone and in action to the small extent that I was, when actually people start shooting, which happened to me a couple of times, everything goes on automatic and there's a feeling of tremendous elevation and even elation. — Mark Helprin

But the appeal to antiquity is both a treason and a heresy. It is a treason because it rejects the Divine voice of the Church at this hour, and a heresy because it denies that voice to be Divine. How can we know what antiquity was except through the Church? ... I may say in strict truth that the Church has no antiquity. It rests upon its own supernatural and perpetual consciousness ... The only Divine evidence to us of what was primitive is the witness and voice of the Church at this hour. — Henry Edward Manning

I'm not ready to get married, but I have a pretty great family and I'd like that too, someday. — Kristen Stewart

One of my few childhood memories is as an eight-year-old, refused permission to watch the Hitchcock season on Irish television, sneakily viewing 'The Birds' though a crack in the living-room door. It transformed my hitherto perfectly enjoyable half-mile walk to school, down a country lane patrolled by watchful birds, into a terrifying ordeal. — Mariella Frostrup

I live life with a daring curiosity. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly. — Alexandra Kosteniuk

The stars dehisce.
By "stars" I mean, of course, tradition,
and by "tradition" I mean nothing at all.
A pronoun disembowels his antecedent.
Stop me if you've heard this one before. — Ben Lerner

I feel like I'm 11 again, with my drums. It doesn't matter if it's good or bad. I'm just playing. — Patty Schemel

Progress in social psychology is necessary to counteract the dangers which arise from the progress in physics and medicine. — Erich Fromm

In high school, I wanted to be an actress. Until I got to college and took some creative writing courses. Then I decided I wanted to become a novelist. — Meg Cabot

It's just that, time goes by way too fast. If you're not careful you can let years go by without accomplishing any of the things you thought you'd accomplish. That's my biggest fear. That I'll wake up one day and wonder where it all went. — Reeni Austin