Finessers Quotes & Sayings

If there are Muslims who believe that they've got to kill Christians to make a way for the Islamic faith in the West, not only would they be disappointed, but it will lead to conflict, there's no doubt about that. — George Carey

The motives behind scientism are culturally significant. They have been mixed, as usual: genuine curiosity in search of truth; the rage for certainty and for unity; and the snobbish desire to earn the label scientist when that became a high social and intellectual rank. But these efforts, even though vain, have not been without harm, to the inventors and to the world at large. The "findings" have inspired policies affecting daily life that were enforced with the same absolute assurance as earlier ones based on religion. At the same time, the workers in the realm of intuition, the gifted finessers - artists, moralists, philosophers, historians, political theorists, and theologians - were either diverted from their proper task, while others were looking on them with disdain as dabblers in the suburbs of Truth. — Jacques Barzun

When I was working on the book "The Life Of One Kid 7", I just felt the pain of the wound, I asked myself why it hurts.... one moment when my mother has went outside I just realise that she has turn on the fucking machine for making the weather inside hot. For god sake, this stop's thinking and makes depression! — Deyth Banger

You see my next door neighbour worships exhaust pipes, he's a catholic converter. — Tim Vine

Heaven is neither here nor there to me. Everywhere and nowhere. Just not in between, But I believe in Heaven. — James Russell Lowell

I read a lot of ghost stories because I was writing a ghost story. I didn't think at all I was writing a horror or a thriller or whatever because it is about a ghost, whereas a horror film can be about aliens or things that rise out of the marsh that have no human shape. — Susan Hill

Some are taxed on their success, true. Some are taxed on their survival, also true. — Benjamin Kane Ethridge

The American girl isn't ANY girl; she's a remarkable specimen in a remarkable species. — Henry James

I hate early mornings.
But I love waking up with you. — Sade Andria Zabala

God forgives man the time spent looking at airplane photos. — Barrett Tillman

There is something about guitars - maybe something magical - when played right, which evokes past, mysterious, barely-conscious sentiments, both individual and universal. — John Fahey

Some stories aren't black and white. — C.J. Roberts

Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life. — Banks