Johnstown Symphony Quotes & Sayings

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves - to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today. — John C. Maxwell

I haven't seen her in five years. Well, hell, I haven't had a cigarette in twelve, and I damn well wanted one for a minute there. Sometimes I don't think anybody ever gets over anything. — Lawrence Block

Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed. — Leo Rosten

Innocence might be its own reward, but when it boardered on naivete, if not stupidity, it was unforgivable. — Elizabeth Aston

As much as I like it when a book I'm writing speeds along, the downside can be that an author becomes too eager to finish and rushes the end. The end is even more important than the first page, and rushing can damage it. — David Morrell

The canon is an artifact of revelation, not an object of revelation itself. It is known infallibly to God by necessity and to man with a certainty directly related to God's purpose in giving the Word to the church. The canon exists because God has inspired some writings, not all writings. it is known to man in fulfillment of God's purpose in engaging in the action of inspiration so as to give His people a lamp for their feet and a light for their path. — James R. White

I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas. — Pat Buchanan

Anger makes us all stupid. — Kara Tippetts

The "Gospel" is not a sermon title or the name of a book in the Bible. The Gospel is the person of Jesus Christ and it is the power of God to bring people to salvation. Romans 1:16 — John Paul Warren

As a kid I didn't see black cowboys on the screen. What that said to me was that there were things I couldn't do or be because of my color. What we see others like us do gives us permission to expand our own horizons. — Walter Dean Myers

You can always tell a car door, no other door sounds quite like it.
("New York Blues") — Cornell Woolrich

The more we cling to the known, the more fearful we are of the unknown. — Art Hochberg

Did that ever happen to you? You think someone is really important and different, but then you get to know them and it ruins everything? Do you know what I'm talking about? — Matthew Quick

You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public. — Lincoln Steffens