Grandmaster Melle Quotes & Sayings

I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing. — Eric Idle

We forget that despite the superficial differences between us, people are equal in their basic wish for peace and happiness. — Dalai Lama

Once you create a self-justifying storyline, your emotional entrapment within it quadruples. — Pema Chodron

Falling in desire with truth and hope is enhancing our soul with a precious love... — Soar

What is God drunk on? Your love. — John Crowder

Christian society is like a bundle of sticks laid together, whereof one kindles another. Solitary men have fewest provocations to evil, but, again, fewest incitations to good. So much as doing good is better than not doing evil will I account Christian good-fellowship better than an hermitish and melancholy solitariness. — Joseph Hall

I make no pretense to accuracy. I shall be quite content if the sensibilities of no one are wounded by anything I may reduce to type. — Thomas R. Marshall

This was ambiguity: holding on to an empty space between two extremes. "You were hurt, a little, weren't you?" his wife had asked. "I'm human, after all. I was hurt," he'd replied. But that wasn't true. Half of it, at least, was a lie. I wasn't hurt enough when I should have been, Kino admitted to himself. When I should have felt real pain, I stifled it. I didn't want to take it on, so I avoided facing up to it. Which is why my heart is so empty now. The snakes have grabbed that spot and are trying to hide their coldly beating hearts there. — Haruki Murakami

I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way. — Tom Cruise

Online journalism has rendered us all news wire hacks - get it posted fast, forget about context or nuance or interpretation, and errors will be fixed on the fly. — Rosie DiManno

Today, we come together to confess our need of God. Those perpetrators who took us on to tear us apart, it has worked the other way. It has backfired; it has brought us together. — Billy Graham

Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really? ... True effectiveness requires balance. — Stephen Covey

The author tells a story wherein a missionary friend of his was invited by unbelievers on a train ride to play cards. The friend declined, saying that he did not bring his hands with him. He explained to the astonished group that the hands attached to what they saw as his body belonged to the Lord, and he was thereby able to explain the Gospel. — Watchman Nee