Evidence Thelonious Monk Quotes & Sayings

The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to. — Marian Wright Edelman

You must learn to hush the demons that whisper, 'No one wants to read this. This has already been said. Your voice doesn't matter.' In the rare moments when the voices finally hush, you might hear the angels singing. — Margaret Feinberg

I was an only child until I was 14, and there were no other kids around the area really. So I spent a lot of time on my own in the fields or by the lake, with just my imagination for company. I suppose I never wanted to let that part of me go. — Jack Reynor

What makes somebody nice or unpleasant to be around is the way they communicate. When people are fucked up, their communication is fucked up. — Ryu Murakami

I'm pretty aggressive, and maybe obnoxious, about trying to get work. — Harvey Pekar

The gospel, centered profoundly for Jesus in the announcement that the reign of God is at hand, is eschatological in character. It pulls back the veil on the coming reign of God, thereby revealing the horizon of the world's future. The gospel portrays the coming of Jesus, and particularly his death and resurrection, as the decisive, truly eschatological event in the world's history. — Darrell L. Guder

Good judgment comes by way of experience, which comes of bad judgment. — Wolf Pascoe

Like the first two revolutions, chaos cuts away at the tenets of Newton's physics. As one physicist put it: Relativity eliminated the Newtonian illusion of absolute space and time; quantum theory eliminated the Newtonian dream of a controllable measurement process; and chaos eliminates the Laplacian fantasy of deterministic predictability. — James Gleick

Actually, I'm 130, but 125 is what I put on my resume, because that's what I look like I weigh. — Eleanor Mondale

But the lovely Madonna, mother of his precious Jesus, couldn't hold a candle to the madonna before him. They — Amy Harmon

The costs can't be borne by smaller counties particularly, so if the crime occurs in a large county you might be charged with the death penalty, in a smaller county you're not. That raises some significant questions about fairness. — Greg Zoeller