Emidios Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

Transmogrification," Langdon said. "The vestiges of pagan religion in Christian symbology are undeniable. Egyptian sun disks became the halos of Catholic saints. Pictograms of Isis nursing her miraculously conceived son Horus became the blueprint for our modern images of the Virgin Mary nursing Baby Jesus. And virtually all the elements of the Catholic ritual - the miter, the altar, the doxology, and communion, the act of "God-eating" - were taken directly from earlier pagan mystery religions. — Dan Brown

There seemed to be no one in a position of power, from the Vatican to Wall Street, from Parliament to Scotland Yard to Fleet Street, who could think of anything better to do than abuse it ... — Edward St. Aubyn

The Scriptures were written, not to make us astronomers, but to make us saints. — Matthew Henry

I don't know what he has. A pulled groin. A hip flexor. I don't know. A pulled something. I never pulled anything. You can't pull fat. — Bruce Coslet

She wanted to climb out of her life as if it were a seashell she could abandon on the shore and walk away from, barefoot. — Laini Taylor

Dance is the landscape of man's soul. — Martha Graham

'The 25th Hour' came out of the decision - a really very conscious decision - that I needed a story set within a compressed time frame because that would help focus the story. — David Benioff

Guantanamo has become the gulag of our time. — Irene Khan

My father and mother had tremendous integrity, and obviously that affected me. — David Green