Catchfire Creative Portsmouth Quotes & Sayings

When I look for help in developing my pastoral craft and nurturing my pastoral vocation, the one century that has the least to commend it is the twentieth. Has any century been so fascinated with gimmickry, so surfeited with fads, so addicted
to nostrums, so unaware of God, so out of touch with the underground spiritual streams which water eternal life? — Eugene H. Peterson

A city sparkles in the night
How can it glow so bright?
The neighborhoods surround the soft florescent light
Designer skyline in my head
Abstract and still well-read
You went from numbered lines to buildings overhead — Owl City

If they're not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way. — Sol Hurok

The French call mot juste the word that exactly fits. Why is this word so hard to find? The reasons are many. First, we don't always know what we mean and are too lazy too find out. — Jacques Barzun

Because being part of him isn't just anything. It's kind of everything. — Melina Marchetta

History belongs to she who holds the pen ... If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told. — Julianne Malveaux

Forty percent of my ideas came from my wife. — Mike Royer

Read! Write! Imagine! Create! Love! Live! — Helen Deakin

The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to becomeerased as the years go by, but often they change, or even grow, by incorporating extraneous features. Judges know this very well: almost never do two eyewitnesses of the same event describe it in the same way and with the same words, even if the event is recent and if neither of them has a personal interest in distorting it. — Primo Levi

What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history. — Barney Frank

If you want to die, don't make a mistake and not quite kill yourself because the medical bills in America are hideous. — Robin Williams

Beware not to get caught up in the thick of thin things. — Neal A. Maxwell

I mean look at all these acquisitions and mergers - WhatsApp and Oculus and et cetera. There's no way that you can envision these tech companies as the underdog anymore. They're always presented as though they were these little guys who you should be championing - Facebook will overthrow the cable television complex, blah blah - but it's more likely they will merge with them. — Astra Taylor

Beautiful," I croak past the lump in my throat. "You're beautiful." I know with an eerie calm that I'll never see anything or anyone more stunning in my life. Everything has changed. Everything. — Kristen Callihan