Extemporary Quotes & Sayings

When you go through tragedy, you can either let that destroy you and you become bitter and never let it go, or you can let it make you stronger and let it make you grow. And that's what I did. My lyrics are coming from a place that I want people to relate to and feel that they're not alone. — Evanescence

I don't have siblings, which is probably the biggest reason why my parents were able to give the attention to my career that they did. — Christine Lakin

His love, his faith in me, his belief that I can be as strong and brave as he is ... The way he makes me feel and think and try harder than I've ever tried ... All of it, all of him, is better than anything else. — Stacey Jay

I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre. — Paul Haggis

When the Congress first met, Mr. Cushing made a motion that it should be opened with prayer ... Mr. Samuel Adams arose and said he was no bigot, and could hear a prayer from a gentleman of piety and virtue, who was at the same time a friend to his country. He ... had heard that Mr. Duche ... deserved that character and therefore he moved that Mr. Duche ... might be desired to read prayers to the Congress ... After (he read several prayers), Mr. Duche, unexpected to everybody, struck out into an extemporary prayer, which filled the bosom of every man present. — John Adams

If it seems like you can see farther than most people, it is because you're standing on shoulders of giants. — Gene Stallings

Male religion entombs women in sepulchres of silence in order to chant its own eternal and dreary dirge to a past that never was. — Mary Daly

Our dourest parsons, who followed the nonconformist fashion of long extemporary prayers, always seemed to me to be bent on bullying God. — J.B. Priestley

We all say data is the next white oil. [Owning the oil field is not as important as owning the refinery because what will make the big money is in refining the oil. Same goes with data, and making sure you extract the real value out of the data.] — Maurice Levy

For years following the death of my mother, I wanted to write about her. I started writing what I thought of as personal essays about growing up as her child, but I never could finish any of them. I think I was too close to that loss, and too eager to try and resolve things, to make her death make sense. — Tracy K. Smith

He so routinely disparaged other people's importance that he didn't notice he was degrading me. — Maya Angelou

Why do they bother with a suicide watch when someone is on death row? "Keep an eye on this guy. We're gonna kill him, and we don't want him to hurt himself." — George Carlin

If one story becomes too hot, then you can't forget it. As an actor, you want to remain fluid. — Andrew Scott

Forbidden? Listen, I was a lawyer, and I know the law. I was also a Catholic, and I used to know whole sections of the Bible by heart. What do you mean by 'forbidden'? — Paulo Coelho

He that has most experience [is] so much more prudent than he that is new, as not to be equalled by any advantage of natural and extemporary wit- though many young men think the contrary. — Thomas Hobbes

The thoughts that you will never make it comes to every person who ever did something great in their lives — Sunday Adelaja

No young woman wants to marry after reading Tolstoy — Lisa Kleypas