Gian Lorenzo Bernini Quotes & Sayings

It will not surprise you to learn that it is not uncommon for jockeys who struggle with their weight to starve themselves and spend hours in the sauna to lose a few pounds to be able to make a big-race ride. — Tony McCoy

Any number of hours later, Mott came with a rock that he said was as shiny as the one I'd had before. He pointed out that it was a little bigger than the other one and looked more valuable. I could have this rock. I only had to return the other one to Conner. — Jennifer A. Nielsen

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. — Clarence Darrow

One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. — Frank Gehry

Where does a character come from? Because a character, at the end of the day, a character will be the combination of the writing of the character, the voicing of the character, the personality of the character, and what the character looks like. — Brian Henson

Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, I am sure you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and that once there I will suffer all the pains and tortures the sadistic ingenuity of your deity can devise and that this torture will continue forever. Isn't that enough for you? Do you have to call me bad names in addition? — Isaac Asimov

When I am on the plane and turbulence kicks in, I can't abide it. I feel like we are all going to die, and it takes everything in me to stay calm. But there are worse things to have to cope with. — Marsha Thomason

Eisenhower on Patton: Fundamentally, he is so avid for recognition as a great commander that he won't with ruthlessly suppress any habit that will jeopardize it. — Jean Edward Smith

Many people will tell you to focus on your marriage, to focus on each other; but we discovered that focusing on God's mission made our marriage amazing. — Francis Chan

We must determine to hear God's Words and put them into practice. — Lysa TerKeurst

If the fall of man consists in the separation of god and the devil the serpent must have appeared out of the middle of the apple when Eve bit like the original worm in it, splitting it in half and sundering everything which was once one into a pair of opposites, so the world is Noah's ark on the sea of eternity containing all the endless pairs of things, irreconcilable and inseparable, and heat will always long for cold and the back for the front and smiles for tears and mutt for jeff and no for yes with the most unutterable nostalgia there is. — Diane Arbus

I didn't think you were interested in her looks," taunted Tyndal, feeling cocky. "I thought you lusted for her mind?" "Well, if the mind happens to have . . . a couple of heavy thoughts like that associated with it, all the better!" Rondal blushed. "She's — Terry Mancour

Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance. — Barack Obama

No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible. — Isaac Newton

What you stop doing is just as important as the things you start doing. — Danielle LaPorte

The world has changed, the CIA is having to change, and again, the challenge for someone like me as a spy novelist is to write realistically about where they're actually going. — David Ignatius