Giorno Ger Quotes & Sayings

Though most cultural observers hadn't noticed it yet, everything was now in place for "Hallelujah" to sweep through the pop landscape. It was a song that had multiple strong, emotional connections with millions of listeners. Its mood was both fixed and malleable, universal and specific. It was familiar enough to resonate, obscure enough to remain cool. Though its most celebrated performer was gone forever, its mysterious creator had come back to the spotlight just in time.
After 2001, whether it signified an individual's solitude (human or monster or otherwise) or a population in mourning, "Hallelujah" - now far removed from Leonard Cohen's initial," rather joyous" intent - was established as the definitive representation of sadness for a new generation. — Alan Light

REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive. — Ambrose Bierce

Make love, not beds. — Torquato Neto

As a forgiven son, I am justified, cleansed, washed clean. This is a greater reality than my sinful past. — Bill Johnson

The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors and not ourselves ... — Derek Walcott

When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious. — Sheryl Sandberg

I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia. — Jimmy Page

I understand that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.

~Equality 7-2521 (as Prometheus), pg 98 — Ayn Rand

Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. — William Shakespeare

We can't have Harlem become one borough for the rich. — Charles B. Rangel

The apostles understood the church to be a movement birthed by the mighty, rushing wind of the Spirit of God. Is that how you see your church? Most people today see the church as an institution, a place to go to, or something to sit through. How did that happen? — J.D. Greear