Jellum State Quotes & Sayings

Zazen is seated meditation-the opposite of contemplation-the emptying of the mind of all thoughts in order simply to be. In the midst of all evil, not a thought is aroused in the mind-this is called za. Seeing into one's Self-nature, not being moved at all-this is called Zen. — Huineng

When I was sixteen, I wrote the first hundred or so pages of a novel about a piano that was haunted by the ghost of an evil blues musician. — Jonathan Tropper

The Days were a clan that mighta lived long
But Ben Day's head got screwed on wrong
That boy craved dark Satan's power
So he killed his family in one nasty hour
Little Michelle he strangled in the night
Then chopped up Debby: a bloody sight
Mother Patty he saved for last
Blew off her head with a shotgun blast
Baby Libby somehow survived
But to live through that ain't much a life
- SCHOOLYARD RHYME, CIRCA 1985 — Gillian Flynn

Is that thing actually going round? I can't tell — Nick Hornby

I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult. — Naomi Benaron

Yes, I like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain.
I'm not much into health food, I am into Champagne. — Rupert Holmes

The immediate reactions of the two superpower leaders when confronted with the gravest international crisis of their careers were much the same, shock, wounded pride, grim determination, and barely repressed fear. — Michael Dobbs

But the culture-vultures and the intellectual snobs, and the self-appointed guardians of the Muses, often frighten off the average person from the free development of this appetite. — Sydney J. Harris

Never let fear and stupid pride make you lose someone who's precious to you. — Haruki Murakami

While sitting on the bank of a river one day, I picked up a solid round stone from the water and broke it open. It was perfectly dry in spite of the fact that it had been immersed in water for centuries. The same is true of many people in the Western world. For centuries they have been surrounded by Christianity; they live immersed in the waters of its benefits. And yet it has not penetrated their hearts; they do not love it. The fault is not in Christianity, but in men's hearts, which have been hardened by materialism and intellectualism. — Sadhu Sundar Singh

About the time of the expulsion of the Tarquins from Rome, the Etruscan power had reached its height. — Theodor Mommsen

For a while I couldn't leave the house by myself. Even if I was just grocery shopping alone, I'd get self-conscious. — Shannen Doherty

I'm not a great preacher, and I don't claim to be a great preacher ... I'm an ordinary preacher, just communicating the Gospel in the best way I know how. — Billy Graham

What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on the big events, give them the kind of context that they deserve. — Tom Brokaw

Chrissy," she said. Her voice was quiet, measured. I thought I detected something in it, some new emotion. Fear. "Describe Ben to me. — S.J. Watson