Jayer Burgundy Quotes & Sayings

Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the obsessive phenomenon of all amorous sentiment. — Roland Barthes

My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended. — Vernon Jordan

In a broader sense, the value of heirlooms is always, as I have said, an historical value, derived from acts of production, use, or appropriation that have involved the object in the past. The value of an heirloom is really that of actions: actions whose significance has been, as it were, absorbed into the object's current identity - whether the emphasis is placed on the inspired labors of the artist who created it, the lengths to which some people have been known to go to acquire it, or the fact that it was once used to cut off a mythical giant's head. Since the value of the actions has already been fixed in the physical being of the object, it is perhaps a short leap to begin attributing the agency behind such actions to the object as well, and speak, as Mauss does, of valuables that transfer themselves from owner to owner or actively influence their owners' fates. The — David Graeber

There is no fickleness about Jesus: those whom He loves, He loves to the end. — J.C. Ryle

The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring. — Henry David Thoreau

Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world. — Andre Malraux

I was punched breathless by the strongest emotions I have ever felt and they are now stored in my intuition as a writer. — Amy Tan

If you have ever met someone who rarely reads, then you will understand the blank look Moti gave me. For nonreaders, life is simply what they touch and see, not what they feel when they open the pages of a play and are transported to the Forest of Arden or Illyria. Where the world is full of a thousand colors for those who love books, I suspect it is simply black and gray to everyone else. A tree is a tree to them; it is never a magical doorway to another world populated with beings that don't exist here. — Michelle Moran

I'm going to need a wig. — Khalia Hades

I soon realized that the correct use of propaganda is a true art which has remained practically unknown to the bourgeois parties. Only the Christian- Social movement, especially in Lueger's time achieved a certain virtuosity on this instrument, to which it owed many of its success. — Adolf Hitler

All conflict comes from attachment. — Anthony De Mello

We have to avoid the spiritual sickness of a self-referentia l church. It's true that when you get out into the street, as happens to every man and woman, there can be accidents. However, if the church remains closed in on itself, self-referentia l, it gets old. Between a church that suffers accidents in the street, and a church that's sick because it's self-referentia l, I have no doubts about preferring the former. — Pope Francis

When we've ceased hearing or changing, we need a new environment. — Beth Moore

It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us. — Daniel Dennett