Carsten Maschmeyer Quotes & Sayings

By writing much, one learns to write well. — Robert Southey

All of those faeries and duels and mad queens and so on, and no one quoted old Billy Shakespeare. Not even once. — Jim Butcher

No. Not my circus, not my undead monkeys. — Ilona Andrews

'The Panorama' is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center still stands, whole, as it stood in the early morning of September 11. I can also see the corner where I saw the first tower fall and howled out loud. Seeing the buildings again here is uplifting, healing. — Jerry Saltz

Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere. — Elvis Costello

When I finished high school, I wanted to take all my graduation money and buy myself a motorcycle. But my mom said no. See, she had a brother who died in a horrible motorcycle accident when he was 18. And I could just have his motorcycle. — Anthony Jeselnik

The heaven-and-hell framework has four central elements: the afterlife, sin and forgiveness, Jesus's dying for our sins, and believing. — Marcus J. Borg

I believe the sovereign God of the universe justifies us freely, and then we are called to run with him in sanctification. — Matt Chandler

The single greatest influence in our lives was the church. The Catholic Church in the 1960s differs from what it is today, especially in the Naugatuck Valley, in those days an overwhelmingly conservative Catholic place.
I was part of what might have been the last generation of American Catholic children who completely and unquestioningly accepted the supernatural as real. Miracles happened. Virgin birth and transubstantiation made perfect sense. Mere humans did in fact, become saints. There was a Holy Ghost. Guardian angels walked beside us and our patron saints really did put in a good word for us every now and then. — John William Tuohy

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance. — Michel De Montaigne