John Weaver Quotes & Sayings

The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code of manners and a native cuisine. Both are apt to suffer when life is regarded as a means to something else. Efficiency and charm are mortal enemies, and Southern charm indubitably derives from a carelessness about the efficient aspects of life. — Richard M. Weaver

Prodigious actions may as well be done, by weaver's issue, as the prince's son. — John Dryden

I'm on the edge, Neblin, I'm off the edge - I'm over the edge and falling into hell on the other side.'
'Calm down, John,' he said. 'We can work through this. Just tell me where you are.'
'I'm down in the cracks of the sidewalks,' I said, 'in the dirt and in the blood, and the ants are looking up and we're damning you all, Neblin. I'm down in the cracks and I can't get out. — Dan Wells

This exercise may be fulfilled several times a day. 2. Concentration on a seven-digit number: 1845421; On a nine-digit number: 845132489. — Grigori Grabovoi

By reading a book, one can learn in a matter of days what it took the author an entire lifetime to learn — Pastor John Weaver

I am arguing that climate models are not fit for the purpose of detection and attribution of climate change on decadal to multidecadal timescales. — Judith Curry

I was never much of a bass player. — Ryan Adams

There's Beatles books and T-shirts and rings, and one thing and another. To buy my daughter all these things, I had to sell her brother. — Allan Sherman

Progress never defines its ultimate objective but thrusts its victims at once into an infinite series,' Mr. [John Crowe] Ransom said' 'Industrialism,' he declared, 'is rightfully a menial, of almost miraculous cunning, but no intelligence; it needs to be strongly governed, or it will destroy the economy of the household. Only a community of tough conservative habit can master it. — Richard M. Weaver

Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures. — Mason Cooley

APD is primarily defined as a lack of empathy,' I said. I'd looked it up too, a few months ago. Empathy is what allows people to interpret emotion, the same way ears interpret sounds; without it you become emotionally deaf.
'It means I don't connect emotionally with other people. I wondered if he was going to pick that one.'
'How do you even know that?' she said. 'You're fifteen years old, for goodness' sake. You should be ... I don't know, chasing girls or playing video games.'
'You're telling a sociopath to chase girls? — Dan Wells

Believe what you wish, but prove what you can. — Carmine Savastano

May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him! — Saint Ignatius

To be fair, when I started doing 'Verdict' I literally had no idea what I was doing. I wanted to do some theatre, as I wanted to do something different. I wanted to learn and get an understanding of the craft. — Matthew Lewis