Garbett Stiphany Quotes & Sayings

Reading Mr. Malcolm Muggeridge's brilliant and depressing book, "The Thirties", I thought of a rather cruel trick I once played on a wasp. He was sucking jam on my plate, and I cut him in half. Hr paid no attention, merely went on with his meal, while a tiny stream of jam tricked out of his oesophagus. Only when he tried to fly away did he grasp the dreadful thing that had happened to him. It is the same with modern man. The thing that has been cut away is his soul, and there was a period - twenty years, perhaps - during which he did not notice it. — George Orwell

Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria. — Catherine Helen Spence

According to the Burman system, there is no escape. According to the Christian system, there is. Jesus Christ has died in the place of sinners, has borne their sins; and now those who believe on Him, and become His disciples, are released from the punishment they deserve. At death, they are received into Heaven and are happy forever. — Adoniram Judson

Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated out of nothing, "blasphemy" is the most amazing - with "obscenity" and "indecent exposure" fighting it out for second and third place. — Robert A. Heinlein

I'm not really comfortable in any one spot. — Neil Diamond

He came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn't work. He came for three weeks, and drank his way all over Brooklyn. And went back ... I went to his funeral in Belfast. — Frank McCourt

I am never going to be less sensitive so that you feel better about being judgmental toward me. — Dan Pearce

The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not. — Amy Poehler

The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending. — Jodi Picoult

I believe that doubts, honestly expressed and wrestled with, produce a faith that is stronger and more intimate than doubts suppressed under the veneer of faith. — Sheila Walsh

Trying to act normal with FBI running from office to office, was like trying to carry on a conversation when having a colonoscopy. — Matthew Mather

Records ... a record just shouldn't be that important. — Bruce Johnston

In a banana republic, one might slip on a banana peel but things do work - now and then for the people, albeit inefficiently and unreliably. — George Ayittey

The old bitterness came up in him and he did not have time to cogitate and push it down. — Carson McCullers

To book commercials, you do something to get to a callback, and once you get to the callback, you've got three minutes to get the people to want to hang out with you for a day. — Scoot McNairy