Haladita Quotes & Sayings

After my daughter was born, I'd considered buying a shotgun to ward off potential suitors fourteen or so years up the road. Now, as I listened to these girls babble and imagined Gabby one day talking with the same banality and ignorance of the English language, I thought of buying the same shotgun to blow my own fucking head off. — Dennis Lehane

A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing those conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic. — Clifford Geertz

Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature. — Heinrich Heine

It wasn't that she lit up, but that everything else seemed to dim. Things he thought were important or bright turned out not to be when she was around, when they were held up against her glow. — L.C. Fiore

I told a story with the E Street Band that was bigger and better than I could have done on my own. — Bruce Springsteen

I'm a songwriter. I need silence to hear the melodies, so I don't fill the days with a lot of sound. — Mike Love

It was always better--safer--to be overlooked. — Michael Scott

There's no reason why women shouldn't behave like rational beings," Simon asserted stolidly.
Poirot said drily: "Quite frequently they do. That is even more upsetting! — Agatha Christie

Pure, spiritual, intellectual love shot from their faces like barbed lightning. It was so unlike the love we experience that its expression could easily be mistaken for ferocity. — C.S. Lewis

I will be in my coffin before I will fight again under your command. — Nathan Bedford Forrest

The jolt that Tony Blair received 35,000ft above the Pacific Ocean was not normal turbulence. — Tony Blair

The approach we try to take here [Morris's Institute for Creation Research] is to assume that the word of God is the word of God and that God is able to say what He means and means what He says, and that's in the Bible and that is our basis. And then we interpret the scientific data within that framework. — Henry M. Morris