Credenza Furniture Quotes & Sayings

Some Christians have an elastic conscience when it comes to their own foibles - and an ironbound conscience when it comes to the foibles of others. — Billy Graham

If I can't have love, if I can't find peace, / Give me a bitter glory. — Anna Akhmatova

Novalee watched his lips shape the words ... the sounds, like whispered secrets, hanging in the air. — Billie Letts

Without an army for the people, there is nothing for the people. — Mao Zedong

Don't be fooled by clever hands, sir" the Sunlight Man said. He'd be lying with the back of his head on his hands, as he always lay. "Entertainment's all very well, but the world is serious. It's exceedingly amusing, when you think about it: nothing in life is as startling or shocking or mysterious as a good magician's trick. That's what makes stagecraft deadly. Listen closely, friend. You see great marvels performed on the stage - the lady sawed in half, the fat man supported by empty air, the Hindu vanishing with the folding of a cloth - and the subtlest of poisons drifts into your brain: you think the earth dead because the sky is full of spirits, you think the hall drab because the stage is adazzle with dimestore gilt. So King Lear rages, and the audience grows meek, and tomorrow, in the gray of old groceries, the housewife will weep for Cordelia and despair for herself. They weren't fools, those old sages who called all art the Devil's work. It eats the soul. — John Gardner