Grampies Clam Quotes & Sayings

First and Second Kings are not disinterested, flat historical works...They stress God's sovereignty over Israel and all other nations. — Paul R. House

Consultation and compliance can conduce little to the perfection of any literary performance; for whoever is so doubtful of his own abilities as to encourage the remarks of others, will find himself every day embarrassed with new difficulties, and will harass his mind, in vain, with the hopeless labour of uniting heterogeneous ideas, digesting independent hints, and collecting into one point the several rays of borrowed light, emitted often with contrary directions. — Samuel Johnson

Junior writers $300; Minor poets - $500 a week; Broken novelists - $850-1000; One play dramatists - $1500; Sucks - $2000. Wits - $2500. — F Scott Fitzgerald

More striking still, it appeared that, if the process of concentration goes on at the same rate, at the end of another century we shall have all American industry controlled by a dozen corporations and run by perhaps a hundred men. Put plainly, we are steering a steady course toward economic oligarchy, if we are not there already. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

I think all kids need snacks. Mine are fruit machines. I give them things like apple slices, berries and melon. Do I let them eat ice cream? Absolutely. But not every day. — Emeril Lagasse

I'm certainly not a prude. — Kim Cattrall

Why do all these Russian men have to be so devastatingly, frustratingly handsome? — Sherry D. Ficklin

But you can't start over
Only a boy can start over
You and me
Why, we're all that's been — John Steinbeck

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them. — Henry Miller

One waits an entire lifetime for a soul mate to appear. And no, God is not the answer — Srividya Srinivasan

I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn't leave her alone. She didn't know where to hide. — Doris Roberts

God is the burden crusher and the freedom fighter. He has the power to change lives. — Tina Samples

It is the interplay between our experience and how we respond to it that makes karma devastating or helpfully invigorating. — Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

Sure, I dreamed of football dates, buy my real dream was that one day I would write something that people would actually read — Kathryn Stockett

He does possess a penetrating sense of humour. At the end of one briefing in Mexico, when Nigel Mansell had let the world know that he was suffering seriously from uncontrollable diarrhoea and needed to interrupt practice several times on this account, Prost drily asked Roland Bruynseraede, 'If Nigel has to come in during the race will you show a brown flag? — Sid Watkins