Deepawali Quotes & Sayings

Play is an expression of God's presence in the world; one clear sign of God's absence in society is the absence of playfulness and laughter. — Mike Yaconelli

But technology is the real skin of our species. Humanity, correctly seen in the context of the last five hundred years, is an extruder of technological material. We take in matter that has a low degree of organization; we put it through mental filters, and we extrude jewelry, gospels, space shuttles. This is what we do. We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects. All our tool making implies our belief in an ultimate tool. That tool is the flying saucer, or the soul, exteriorized in three-dimensional space. — Terence McKenna

You said something slightly off-color about her shoes and she brought up the fact that you had a slow eye and danced like a goat with a rock stuck in its ass. Ouch. You would just be playing and homegirl would be coming down on you off the top rope. — Junot Diaz

Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage. — Jimmy Dean

I never lifted a weight in my life. Why am I going to do steroids? That's not going to do me any good. We didn't have any weights in our clubhouse. We had one exercise bike and that was for the guy who tweaked his hamstring. And that thing didn't even work half the time. — George Brett

Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it. — Lyndon B. Johnson

I extend my greetings and good wishes to all our citizens on the joyous occasion of Deepawali. The festival of lights, celebrated with gaiety and enthusiasm all over the country, signifies the victory of good over evil and is an appropriate occasion for us to resolve to follow the high ideals in life. — Mohammad Hamid Ansari

I have no idea what to expect I have no idea what my life will be like in this new place and I'm being nailed in the stomach by every exquisite embellishment, every lavish accessory, every superfluous painting, molding, lighting, coloring of this building. I hope the whole thing catches fire. — Tahereh Mafi

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. — Molly Ivins

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. — Abraham Lincoln

Marriage is very difficult. Marriage is like a five-thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle, all sky. — Cathy Ladman

Of all devils let loose in the world there is no devil like devoted love ... — Dorothy L. Sayers

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz. — Alexis Korner

Does it matter that people and things
Have words,
Have names?
If not,
Why read any book?
A litany of useless letters
Detached from bone, muscle.
Or are words the only things that make the muscle, bone, memory, movement,
Person
Real? — Stasia Ward Kehoe

If you're not part of that club, as I certainly am not, you are not presidential. — Gore Vidal

Stand Firm for your country, and become a man Honour'd and lov'd: It were a noble life, To be found dead, embracing her. — Samuel Johnson