Gaspards Lawn Quotes & Sayings

What I find trying in a country which you do not understand and where you cannot speak, is that you can never be yourself. — Freya Stark

I like to work on New Year's Eve. It has a nice spirit; a nice feel about it. If you are all about the 'year-end' thing at all, then laughing with fellow human beings is a great way to start the new year. — Paula Poundstone

Stupidity trumps Machiavelli almost every time when you are looking for an explanation. — Robert Foster Bennett

If we each had to butcher our own meat, there would be a great increase in the number of vegetarians. — Ernest Howard Crosby

I like to take chances. The actors I admire are the ones who aren't afraid to make themselves nasty, bad or even goofy. I've never shied away from controversial characters. — Matt Dillon

Death is universal. The rituals associated with it, however, vary substantially - and are greatly influenced by their religious and cultural context. — Richard J. Borden

Your intention to love, no matter what, is the absolute key to happiness. — Robert Holden

Golden Arches theory: no two countries with a McDonald's have ever fought in a war. — Steven Pinker

Cabbages, whose heads, tightly folded see and hear nothing of this world, dreaming only on the yellow and green magnificence that is hardening within them. — John Haines

Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use. — Vandana Shiva

What is it, really, that we could lose if we handed ourselves over to the discernment of faith? Would we really lose anything except the illusion of control? This question suggests that there may be an idolatrous project underlying resistance to spiritual discernment: the desire for a decision-making process that we can predict and control.
But the obedience of faith offers no certainties, not even that of being certain of our our fidelity. We cannot know if the decision we make here and now are correct. We only know that they are the best we are able to make, and that in the future we might both regret them and need to change them. The reason has nothing to do with our sinfulness and everything to do with the fact that faith has to do with the Living God, who always moves ahead of us in surprising and sometimes shocking ways. "It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God" (Heb. 10:31). — Luke Timothy Johnson

The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial; it was something very personal to me. — Enya

I don't just act to pay my rent. I really like doing it, so I get frustrated when I don't get to do it all the time, so short films are a really great way to be doing it and working with your friends, working on smaller, more specific things without limiting yourself in other ways. — Mackenzie Davis