Jack Folla Quotes & Sayings

The convenience of timekeeping is greatly overrated; and the people who practice it so faithfully that they lose the capacity for appreciating the fixed and the static and the spatially related experiences cut themselves off from a good part of reality. — Lewis Mumford

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck, it is a very unfortunate situation for the batting team. On the other side of the image, although being definitely unfortunatable for the batting team, it is most definitely a glorious silver lining for the bowling team. — Ian B.G. Burns

Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years. — Thomas Szasz

Despite the fact that life has repeatedly reinforced my conviction that the tomb was empty, some of my most profound errors have occurred when I was straining under the weight of a death that was in reality the liberation of a transition. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

A blanket is great for covering things, like the dead guy, I just killed with this brick. — Nicole McKay

There isn't a switch that I turn on. I'm an actor. This is what I do. — Anthony Anderson

How it shaped my perception is this: I have become so indelibly identified as a character in pop culture that it has forced me to go deeply within myself to get a very very rock solid sense, to myself, of who I am. — Thomas F. Wilson

I don't think that you can say by any stretch of the imagination that all Wisconsin or Brooklyn-based poets write in a particular way. Similar sensibilities can spring up next to each other in the flower bed, or across oceans. — Matthea Harvey

The clock ticks; the taunting rhythm serving as a reminder that forward is the only way we can go. The mechanical heartbeat of the darkness, a cold ellipsis, punctuating years gone by.
Arising unchained.
No glorious hymn, just the steady beat of the illusion of time. We heal or we carry forward the weight of our wounds ... To believe otherwise is the mendacity of desperation.
Arising honestly.
The miles behind are littered with the weight of nostalgia, but too many miles lay ahead us to carry the weight. In the end, even echoes fade away.
Pen in hand ...
Arising to write the next chapter.
(MU Articles 2013, Dedication to Joey) — Shannon L. Alder

This is God's curse on slavery! - a bitter, bitter, most accursed thing! - a curse to the master and a curse to the slave! I was a fool to think I could make anything good out of such a deadly evil. It is a sin to hold a slave under laws like ours, - I always felt it was, - I always thought so when I was a girl, - I thought so still more after I joined the church; but I thought I could gild it over, - I thought, by kindness, and care, and instruction, I could make the condition of mine better than freedom - fool that I was! — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people. — Jonathan Edwards

My house is very serious. It's a lot of antiques, and the way I decided to liven it up is, I paired it very vibrant colors and - bugs ... I think that they're pretty. And I think that they're fascinating and they're natural. — Emily Procter

I do realize that I am a very slow realizer. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Will not break a bruised reed, or quench a smoldering wick (Isa. 423; Matt. 12:20). — Richard J. Foster

Love, for some people is undying, even if one lost the partner. — Diana Palmer