Calpurnius St Quotes & Sayings

Now back in those days, to become a rural mail carrier you had to be approved by congress. — Betty Hill

Getting back into the action genre is like going back home. It's great. — Dwayne Johnson

All music comes from God. — Johnny Cash

When I wrote 'Sideways Stories from Wayside School' I never expected it to be published. It was kind of a hobby. Now, it's a job, but it's a job I like very much. — Louis Sachar

Poets, the first instructors of mankind,
Brought all things to the proper native use. — Horace

Words engage our minds, but in the silence we hear the Presence of God. — Ram Dass

The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies. Living consciously is living with a core of healthy self-esteem. You will face reality, you will not delude yourself. — Bell Hooks

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature. — Luc De Clapiers

I don't understand what people are talking about in different rhymes glorifying jail. If you like going to bed early, getting yelled at, seeing a fight, seeing somebody getting their head split open, or fighting over the TV then that's the place for you. — Sadat X

This is something that, as artists, we constantly deal with-throwing away the past, slaying the father, and creating the new. This desire to throw away the old rules. — Kehinde Wiley

Look closer and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed. — Zelda Fitzgerald

I would eat fruitcake if there'd been a nuclear war and I'd run out of canned goods. — Deb Caletti

With his Policraticus (1159), John of Salisbury had become the most famous Christian writer to compare society to a human body and to use that analogy to justify a system of natural inequality. In Salisbury's formulation, every element in the state had an anatomical counterpart: the ruler was the head, the parliament was the heart, the court was the sides, officials and judges were the eyes, ears and tongue, the treasury was the belly and intestines, the army was the hands and the peasantry and labouring classes were the feet. — Alain De Botton