Devotely Quotes & Sayings

Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them. — Evelyn Waugh

I just love doing movies that I would want to see in theaters. — Christopher Mintz-Plasse

The history of the bagel suggests that Americans' shifting, blended, multi-ethnic eating habits are signs neither of postmodern decadence, ethnic fragmentation, nor corporate hegemony. If we do not understand how a bagel could sometimes be Jewish, sometimes be "New York," and sometimes be American, or why it is that Pakistanis now sell bagels to both Anglos and Tejanos in Houston, it is in part because we have too hastily assumed that our tendency to cross cultural boundaries in order to eat ethnic foods is a recent development - and a culinary symptom of all that has gone wrong with contemporary culture.

It is not. The bagel tells a different kind of American tale. It high- lights ways that the production, exchange, marketing, and consumption of food have generated new identities - for foods and eaters alike. — Donna Gabaccia

But just as elevators have changed the shape of buildings and cars have changed the shape of cities, bits will change the shape of organizations, be they companies, nations, or social structures. — Nicholas Negroponte

The trouble with women in an orchestra is that if they're attractive it will upset my players and if they're not it will upset me. — Thomas Beecham

You love only those who deserve it. — Ayn Rand

It is impossible to read in America, except on a train, because of the telephone. Everyone has a telephone, and it rings all day and most of the night. — Bertrand Russell

We are convinced that the Rosary, if devotely used is bound to benefit not only the individual but society at large. — Pope Leo XIII

No man wanted to face warriors like Finan in battle. — Bernard Cornwell

Now as then, he sensed the threads of his life scattering and rearranging before this new and overwhelming thing that had landed among them. — Helene Wecker

The energy of hatred won't get you anywhere; but the energy of forgiveness, which reveals itself through love, will transform your life in a positive way. — Anonymous

What you have, what you are - your looks, your personality, your way of thinking - is unique. No one in the world is like you. So capitalize on it. — Jack Lord

Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer. — Arthur Miller

The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers. — George Eliot