Churchilld Quotes & Sayings

Pure creativity is magnificent expressly because it is the opposite of everything else in life that's essential or inescapable (food, shelter, medicine, rule of law, social order, community and familial responsibility, sickness, loss, death, taxes, etc.). Pure creativity is something better than a necessity; it's a gift. It's the frosting. Our creativity is a wild and unexpected bonus from the universe. — Elizabeth Gilbert

This is going to sound really sad, but I didn't really have any heartthrobs when I was growing up. I was a bit of a geek. — Gugu Mbatha-Raw

We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents. — Mark Twain

Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding. — Jean De La Fontaine

By now the streets of Kalaupapa were filled with people racing for high ground - sick people crying
"Tsunami!" as nature played yet another mean trick on them, God's last best joke at their expense. It was,
after all, April Fool's Day. — Alan Brennert

I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ. — Tullian Tchividjian

If things are getting darker, the problem is with us. — Henry Blackaby

An itinerant masseur, massaging the politically erogenous zones. — David Lange

Actually she was at least in her late twenties (I never established her exact age for even her passport lied) and had mislaid her virginity under circumstances that changed with her reminiscent moods. — Vladimir Nabokov

To recognize that some of the things our culture believes are not true imposes on us the duty of finding out which are true and which are not. — Allan Bloom

Writing with a simplified alphabet checked the power of custom of an oral tradition but implied a decline in the power of expression and the creation of grooves which determined the channels of thought of readers and later writers. — Harold Innis

I've said many times before that Pebble Beach is a wonderful thinking-man's golf course. That is why it is such a great U.S. Open venue. — Jack Nicklaus