Israfel Angel Quotes & Sayings

Being an English major prepares you for impersonating authority. — Garrison Keillor

I had never realized before how quickly men deteriorate without razors and clean shirts. They are like potted plants that go to weed unless they are pruned and tended daily. A single day's growth beard makes a man look careless; two days', derelict; and four days', polluted. Blix and Weston hadn't shaved for three. — Beryl Markham

We have to go on until Islam is made as ho-hum as Catholicism. — Charb

My parents were never really married, by which I mean they never bothered making their relationship official with any church. I'm not embarrassed by the fact. They considered themselves married and didn't see much point in announcing it to any government or God. I respect that. In truth, they seemed more content and faithful than many officially married couples I have seen since. — Patrick Rothfuss

Plato would hardly need to change a single word of his myth of the cave. Our knowledge would not be able to furnish an answer to his anxiety, his disquietude, his "premonitions." The world would remain for him, "in the light" of our "positive" sciences, what it was - a dark and sorrowful subterranean region - and we would seem to him like chained prisoners. Life would again have to make superhuman efforts, "as in a battle," to break open for himself a path through the truths created by the sciences which "dream of being but cannot see it in waking reality." [1] In brief, Aristotle would bless our knowledge while Plato would curse it. — Lev Shestov

We must remember that we are living in an age in which the ground is shifting and the foundations are shaking. I cannot answer for other times and places. Perhaps it has always been so. We know it is true today. — R.D. Laing

And what is it that preachers do, to this very day? Do they interpret and expound the Scriptures? Yet if the Scripture they expound is uncertain, who can assure us that heir exposition is certain? Another new exposition? And who will expound the exposition? At this rate we will go on forever. In short, if Scripture is obscure or ambiguous, what part is there in God's giving it to us? — Martin Luther

At that moment, I have to hold myself back from bitch-slapping her!

Whoa Chambers! I shock myself with that; I have never ever thought such a thing before. — A.J. Walters

It's better to be angry without paying for gold than to be angry after you paid. — Marilyn Monroe

I remained in my room more and more each day. The situation in Montgomery was so strange I decided to try passing back into white society. — John Howard Griffin

As one gets older, the story of Hansel and Gretel becomes more interesting only when told from the point of view of the witch. — Charles Baxter