Crispados Quotes & Sayings

In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. — Richard Rogers

It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which we will be allowed to institutionalize memory. — Harold Bloom

I would kill the clone. That would be my first response. — Elizabeth Perkins

One of the things I've tried to do in my career is really write different kinds of books, so I'm able to broaden people's expectations of what I'm allowed to do. — Lauren Oliver

I think marriage is between a man and a woman. I think we're all created equal in God's eyes, I think we need to respect and love those we disagree with. I think we can have religious liberty without discrimination. My views on marriage aren't evolving with the polls. It's based on my faith, I think it should remain between a man and a woman. — Bobby Jindal

Most of the church landscape in my lifetime has been heavily invested in trying to do something for Jerry or Sherri or some other icon of unchurchness. The problem is that they have been only about themselves from the moment they could wail for their mothers, and the decision to give them at church what they can find in any self-help book appears now as a choice to abandon the One in whose honor the church gathers. What they need is to be set free from themselves with finality and to be lost in the awesome wonder of the manifest presence of God. It was never God's desire that He would sit on the sideline and watch us frantically devise impressive ways to reach people or simply hold the line on orthodoxy as though faithfulness can exist in a vacuum apart from fruitfulness. God is the Matter of first importance! Can you say that about your current weekly encounter with church? — James MacDonald

Nolan glanced at Brett. "Fair enough, Brett. But today is not that day." **** — Darien Cox

Beauty is only skin deep but deception goes right to the core. — Jayce O'Neal

People think that everyone wears black in France; in fact they all wear grey. — Jean Paul Gaultier

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading. — Igor Stravinsky

Dutifully, the Count put the spoon in his mouth. In an instant, there was the familiar sweetness of fresh honey---sunlit, golden, and gay. Given the time of year, the Count was expecting this first impression to be followed by a hint of lilacs from the Alexander Gardens or cherry blossoms from the Garden Ring. But as the elixir dissolved on his tongue, the Count became aware of something else entirely. Rather than the flowering trees of Central Moscow, the honey had a hint of a grassy riverbank.....the trace of a summer breeze......a suggestion of a pergola.....But most of all there was the unmistakable essence of a thousand apple trees in bloom.
"Nizhny Novgorod", he said.
And it was. — Amor Towles

Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition. — Henry Clay

If I ever see you again, you traitorous bastard, I'll take out the other fucking eye! — Pittacus Lore

It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others. — Robert Henri

If I have sometimes seemed to make fun of Woman, I assure you it has only been for the purpose of egging her on. — James Thurber