Etley Quotes & Sayings

On with you, horse-taming Trojans! Never give Greeks best in your will to fight! They are not made of stone or iron. Their flesh can't keep out penetrating spears when they are hit. — Homer

If an author does not give reasons for his propositions, they can only be treated as expressions of personal opinion on his part. — Mortimer J. Adler

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat. — Huston Smith

Almost as if I have shoved her into a cocoon of my own making, where wings are held tight and breath is taken within the confines of minimal space. And now that we're out . . . Olivia has become a butterfly with a wingspan so wide and beautiful it fills this entire room. And once again, I've become a freaking poet. — Amy Matayo

I just want to keep laying down really great, strong characters, and the more I go unrecognized, the better job I feel I'm doing. — Scoot McNairy

It's, like, a rule. You can't have Christmas without snow. — Chris Kaman

Suicide was against the law. Johnny had wondered why. It meant that if you missed, or the gas ran out, or the rope broke, you could get locked up in prison to show you that life was really very jolly and throughly worth living. — Terry Pratchett

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise. — Larry Wall

It's a funny thing, 'The Office,' because millions and millions and millions and millions of people didn't watch it. But culturally, it is more of a phenomenon than almost anything else I can remember as far as British television is concerned. — Martin Freeman

I do have an important question, but I can ask it from out here. Are you dry?
Of course I'm dry. Why do you ask that?
So many daughters have come home wet lately. — Jeanne Birdsall

Hey, if I had my choice for social engineering, I'd declare an automatic R-rating for any movie that depicts television commercials. There's a truly dangerous influence on our children. — Marshall Herskovitz

Boredom doesn't exist where creativity lives. — Sanjo Jendayi

But if you get chronically, psychosocially stressed, you're going to compromise your health. So, essentially, we've evolved to be smart enough to make ourselves sick. — Robert M. Sapolsky

I learned the cello , but I would still need a massive amount of practice. But I do play classical music, so I understand where that comes from. — Alicia Keys