Hank Mobley Quotes & Sayings

I never even considered writing a career option. I just liked the play of words. I was certainly interested in story, but the stories I was telling then were in narrative verse and prose poems, short and succinct, except for one novel-length poem written in narrative couplets. — Charles De Lint

We've got a lot to gain and nothing to lose. — Joe Teti

Being a die-hard Knicks fan, I remember hunting down these orange-and-blue Nikes that they only released in England. And I used to hunt for sneakers when I DJ'd in Japan. But then Nike flooded the market with a head-spinning array of color combinations and it just didn't seem cool anymore. — Mark Ronson

I'm kind of an evangelical atheist. — Brian Eno

Among other things a marriage is a system of belief, a story, and though it manifests itself in things that are real enough, the impulse that drives it is ultimately mysterious. — Rachel Cusk

The first time he saw her she reminded him a distant memory of falling from a height. — Vatsal Surti

Saying No Is Actually Saying Yes To Other Things — Patrick Rhone

You cannot depend on a sandbag dike to save your life. You put it up to try to save your property. — Russel Honore

Our most emotionally active life is lived in our dreams, and our cells renew themselves most industriously in sleep. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great; he is free from the experience of hostility; he is a poet, and most like an angel. — Leonard Bernstein

On all levels and in every aspect of our society, the poor are rejected, mistreated, and forced more deeply into their poverty. Christianity should have taken up the cause of the poor; better yet, it should have identified with the poor. Instead, during almost the entire course of its history, the Church has served as a prop of the powerful and has been on the side of exploiters and states — Frank Schaeffer

The belief in death leads meditating about life; meanwhile, the belief in life leads you thinking about death. — Sorin Cerin