Grammatist Quotes & Sayings

Intemperance is the physician's provider. — Publilius Syrus

If there is a God, he's a great mathematician. — Paul Dirac

You know you're old if they have discontinued your blood type. — Phyllis Diller

Go warn the children of God of the terrible speed of mercy, — Flannery O'Connor

Love is nothing more than an example of a emotion which is build on pressure. — Deyth Banger

Ah, 'Pather Panchali' was the most inspiring film that I wrote music for, and it was so spontaneously done. I saw the film, composed on the spot, along with myself and only four other musicians, and everything was done within 4-1/2 hours, I think an all-time record anywhere. — Ravi Shankar

Then I remembered a joke told by a Tibetan friend: "What is the difference between a Buddhist and a non-Buddhist?" The answer: "The non-Buddhist thinks there is one. — Eric Dinerstein

When we fail, we cut the string. Then God ties it up again, making a knot and thereby bringing us a little closer to Him. Again and again our failures cut the string, and with each additional knot God keeps drawing us closer and closer. — Sharon A. Hersh

The conversation of those who like to lord it over us is very disagreeable. But we should always be ready to graciously acknowledge the truth, no matter in what guise it comes to us. — Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

Too many churches have become entertainment halls where star speakers strut and swagger for their fans. For too many houses of worship, the platform has become a performance stage for musicians - and I mean that in the most ignoble sense. Even when they shout and sing the name of Jesus Christ, somehow the focus of attention is upon them and public praise stays with them. — Charles R. Swindoll

I had danced when I was younger, until I was about 12, and I always idealized it, as most young girls do, as the most beautiful art. It's an expression without words. — Natalie Portman

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. — Carl Jung

Being guided by your own thoughts and abilities, living out there on the high wire and being rewarded for it: That was the Chicago way. Nothing else counted. If it were sensational enough, whether a scientific breakthrough, a rousing new style of music, or an underworld murder, it would be celebrated. — Douglas Perry

Seek out some retired and old-world spot, far from the madding crowd, and dream away a sunny week among its drowsy lanes - some half-forgotten nook, hidden away by the fairies, out of reach of the noisy world - some quaint-perched eyrie on the cliffs of Time, from whence the surging waves of the nineteenth century would sound far-off and faint. — Jerome K. Jerome

I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian. — Wilma Mankiller