Famous Joan Benoit Samuelson Quotes & Sayings

He who writes books that aim to convince is a comedian, too, just a comedian. What has he got to offer others, apart from chains, still more chains? Fiction never liberated anyone. No one ever brought anything back from voyages through dream worlds. — Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio

I like enthusiasts of any kind. — Roald Dahl

I'm not a narcissist, but I definitely have gotten enough explosive narcissistic shrapnel from my father. I'm sort of wired that way, but I don't feel that I'm pathological, so all I can pull from is my own existence and my knowledge. — Marc Maron

On the whole, and providing one is in good spirits and feeling reasonably bright, it is not hard to converse for a short space of time on subjects about which one knows little, and it is indeed often amusing to see how cunningly one can steer the conversational barque, hoisting and lowering her sails, tacking this way and that to avoid reefs, and finally racing feverishly for home with the outboard engine making a loud and cheerful noise. — Virginia Graham

I've been thinking Hobbes"
"On a weekend?"
"Well, it wasn't on purpose — Bill Watterson

Forget yourself! Think courage. — Norman Vincent Peale

I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me. — Cam Gigandet

Being Irish-American myself, Irish-American material is readily at hand to me. — Alice McDermott

There are many things which are pastorally helpful in the short or medium term which are not in fact grounded on the deepest possible reading of Scripture. That is simply a testimony to the grace of God: we don't have to get everything right before anything can work! But if the church is to be built up and nurtured in Scripture it must be semper reformanda, submitting all its traditions to the Word of God. — N. T. Wright

As you get older, you see life is very short, so you have to appreciate more and more and to enjoy it. — Carine Roitfeld

I would not cross the street to make a Baptist, but I would go round the world to make a Christian. — James Sharp

Original sin is the proclivity to say "my will be done" instead of "thy will be done." — Peter Kreeft

Improvisation is not a presentational form, except in small doses, or as a game. It's a tool. — Bernard Sahlins

...and I was thinking of what it would be like to have such a wound, to lift up the bottom of my shirt at school and have bandages to show, white brushstrokes on belly, when a horrendous force Huhhh catapulted me forward and my neck whipped back and I crumbled down to the pavement and my entire face began to cry; — Evan Dara

He poured himself a good measure of Glenfiddich; and shortly thereafter fell deeply asleep in the chair for more than two hours. Bliss. — Colin Dexter