Jesting Pilate Quotes & Sayings

Dreams, like children, don't raise themselves. Like — Jeffrey A. Barnes

Americans get about 13 percent of their calories from added sugar, or 268 calories a day, the equivalent of about 18 teaspoons. One teaspoon of sugar is about 15 calories. — Anonymous

We are breathing at the same pace, our chests rising and falling in unison. We have no need to whisper, because at this distance, all we need is thought. — David Levithan

But against sandfly fever one could be inoculated, and I have another, hideously vivid picture of a great menacing brute of a doctor sticking a Thing that ended in a vicious needle into my mother's arm. Mad to defend my own, I scrambled off my father's knee, and flew to her rescue. I fixed my teeth in the doctor's horrible hairy wrist and hung on like a terrier, until my father succeeded in prising me away. Afterwards, everybody said how wonderful the doctor had been, because he continued calmly giving the inoculation while I was prised off him, instead of breaking the needle in my mother's arm. But nobody said how brave it was of me, only three years old, when all is said and done, and gone in the legs at that, to take on such fearful odds for the sake of love. — Rosemary Sutcliff

If an artist is not only he who sings or paints, but he whow express himself by words or illustrations then I can consider myself as one. — Amen Muffler

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. — Francis Bacon

I'd like to direct more operas. — Simon Callow

Carrying on as usual carries enormous risks, condemning today's students to a world of constant insecurity and frequent catastrophes. — William H. Calvin

This sleep is sound indeed; this is a sleep
That from this golden rigol hath divorc'd
So many English kings. — William Shakespeare

The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever. — Bruce Beresford

It's no fun to be a bluestocking in a family of jockstraps. — Colleen McCullough

Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere — Frederick Douglass

What an illusion, she thinks, the idea of an ordered, ordinary life. — Dalia Sofer

Turn your failure into a fairy tale of success and triumph. — Debasish Mridha

The real question is not where do ideas come from but where do they go. — Paul Beatty

That's one strength that Stevie has. She's really not a strong instrumentalist in any way. Her instrument is her voice and her words. And it keeps her focused on the very center of that. — Lindsey Buckingham