Cumberlander Family Reunion Quotes & Sayings

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation. — Noam Chomsky

How many times had I let myself connect with someone only to have it thrown back in my face? — Jay Asher

If I can do it, you can do it. Anybody can. — Doris Day

It will all go on as long as women are stupid enough to go on bringing men into the world ... — Dorothy Richardson

That seems to point up a significant difference between Europeans and Americans. A European says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with me?" An American says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with him? — Terry Pratchett

Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith. — Bob Goff

We all love a good story. We all love a tantalizing mystery. We all love the underdog pressing onward against seemingly insurmountable odds. We all, in one form or another, are trying to make sense of the world around us. And all of these elements lie at the core of modern physics. The story is among the grandest
the unfolding of the entire universe; the mystery is among the toughest
finding out how the cosmos came to be; the odds are among the most daunting
bipeds, newly arrived by cosmic time scales trying to reveal the secrets of the ages; and the quest is among the deepest
the search for fundamental laws to explain all we see and beyond, from the tiniest particles to the most distant galaxies. — Brian Greene

One way of legitimising coincidences, of course, is to call them ironies. That — Julian Barnes

There must be an open space in the paintings - an entry space for the viewer, or even for me. Just white space where you can get into it. — Norbert Bisky

The Only Group That Can Categorize Everything Is Everybody — Clay Shirky

It's a funny thing about the modern world. You hear girls in the toilets of clubs saying, "Yeah, he fucked off and left me. He didn't love me. He just couldn't deal with love. He was too fucked up to know how to love me." Now, how did that happen? What was it about this unlovable century that convinced us we were, despite everything, eminently lovable as a people, as a species? What made us think that anyone who fails to love us is damaged, lacking, malfunctioning in some way? And particularly if they replace us with a god, or a weeping madonna, or the face of Christ in a ciabatta roll
then we call them crazy. Deluded. Regressive. We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there might be something more worthy of love than us, more worthy of worship. Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time. — Zadie Smith

We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators. — Richard Dawkins

The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics. — Iain McGilchrist

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion. — Pope Francis

Practicing going over scenes and in front of the camera just to see how that feels, and then ultimately just finding a way to expose yourself to people. That's what I did. — Bridgit Mendler