Jj Astor Quotes & Sayings

I'm happy to see you've found a church home, Abby," her father said piously. For years he had led the prayer each Sunday at the First Methodist Church in Danesboro, and the other six days he had tirelessly practiced greed and manipulation. He had also steadily but discreetly pursued whiskey and women. An — John Grisham

There are real radical Muslim groups out there that really are pretty villainous. You don't have to make them up. — Jeff Sharlet

Their intuitive capacity to communicate often transcended the limits of conventional oral discourse. They always understood each other. — Sheldon Stern

A little extravagance can be defensible, so long as you buy the right things, appraising them for their payoff potential. Ask yourself 'can the object, in any way, be construed as a life investment?' by 'life investment' we mean something that will not only appreciate monetarily, but that will also a) save you money in the long-term, or b) grant you status, cultural enrichment, and/or intense pleasure. — Shelly Branch

Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time. — V.S. Pritchett

The others agreed that the gifts of the ancients and the gods were sometimes confusing, and Desidora did eventually decide to stay in. — Patrick Weekes

I'm always scouring the universe for great old instruments from the '50s and early '60s. That's really, for me, the golden age of basses, when they had just been invented within 10 years of that period and they had just started to come into their own, especially the old Fender jazz basses and old Rickenbackers and Gibsons. I'm always on the lookout. It's fun. — Geddy Lee

Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms. — William Beveridge

I love drawing, whether it's considered work or not, but I'm always drawing, and that's the core of the work. Everything comes from drawing. — Ryan McGinness

The true creator-self is a light-at-heart and care-free child, who accesses destiny as a simple act of joyful play. — Bryant McGill