Ian Ayre Quotes & Sayings

In my view the study of fairy origins assumes a greater degree of importance than popular opinion is wont to concede to it. Indeed, the ideas associated with it strike at the very roots of human belief and primitive methods of reasoning. It is scarcely to be questioned that the explanation of fairy origins is of the utmost value to the better comprehension of primitive religion. Later it will be made clear that, for the writer at least, the whole tradition of Faerie reveals quite numerous and excellent proofs of its former existence as a primitive and separate cult and faith, more particularly as regards its appearance and tradition in these islands. — Lewis Spence

Will you join me in hearing the case for keeping weapons from those who preach death to Israel and America? — Elie Wiesel

He could be boastful in a way pleasantly at odds with his native fatalism, and his youthful stubbornness had a way of ameliorating into a sort of wounded dignity, which was centered in the darting passes of his deep-set, dark eyes. — Dan Lopez

Words have power," Isaac answered. Words begin and end wars. They create and destroy families. They break hearts. They heal them. If you have the right words, there's nothin on earth you can't do."
- Crave the Moon — Lori Handeland

Enlightened self-interest from those involved in hydrocarbons should lead to the support of technologies enabling the clean use of hydrocarbons, such as carbon capture and storage, and not to the defence of deniers and cranks. — Nicholas Stern

If there wasn't something called acting, they would probably hospitalize people like me. — Whoopi Goldberg

People who like to cook like to talk about food ... without one cook giving another cook a tip or two, human life might have died out a long time ago. — Laurie Colwin

Some people consider the way Shakespeare was writing about Ophelia as erotomania-that she was delusional in thinking that Hamlet was in love with her. But I don't think so. — Jack White

He showed me the rudiments of electronics, and I got very interested in that. Even more interesting were the trips to scavenge for parts. — Walter Isaacson

Sometimes I think I should have stayed longer and I should have done more films. — Doris Day

Magic is real. And reality ... it is magical. — Aleister Crowley

Wisdom means that it gives you detachment, detachment from all that is selfishness, self-centredness, self-obsession, ego - all connected with self. — Nirmala Srivastava

If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a mature man who is also able to control his whole body. James 3:2 — Beth Moore

This is what noir is, what it can be when it stops playing nice
blunt force drama stripped down to the bone, then made to dance across the page. — Stephen Graham Jones

... the doctrinal differences between Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism. Holy wars are not fought over them because verbalized statements about reality are never presumed to be reality itself. — Robert M. Pirsig