Embezzling Nuns Quotes & Sayings

Jaysus, you must be the most nosey little shite I have ever come across in my bleeding life. — Eden Butler

Loneliness comes up to him like a sniffing dog. It circles him insistently. He waves it away, but it refuses to leave him alone. — Yann Martel

His mama beat him with an ugly stick so hard, it gone straight on till his soul. — Delia Sherman

You have to love a town where you can both smoke and gamble in a pharmacy. — Anthony Bourdain

Many of us learned that passivity lessened the possibility of attack. — Bell Hooks

We all know that men in moderate circumstances can have just as comfortable houses as the richest, just as comfortable clothing, just as good food. They can see just as fine paintings, just as marvelous statues, and they can hear just as good music. They can attend the same theaters and the same operas. They can enjoy the same sunshine, and above all, can love and be loved just as well as kings and millionaires. — Robert Green Ingersoll

To me songwriting is more like redemption. I can extract the poison or the pollen, the essence from a situation and the rest becomes a husk that blows away. — Beth Orton

For more than a thousand years the Bible, collectively taken, has gone hand in hand with civilization science, law; in short, with the moral and intellectual cultivation of the species, always supporting and often leading he way. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge