Jon Acuff Quitter Quotes & Sayings

She's eighty-four and still has all her teeth. She keeps them in a little wooden box on her dressing table. — Simon Hugh Wheeler

I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature. — Wynn Bullock

There's even an 1892 novel called Golf in the Year 2000 that (somewhat incredibly) predicts the advent of televised sports. — Chuck Klosterman

I've seen my performances. I don't like them. — Don Ameche

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it. — Mitt Romney

Shaking off, with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy. — Richard Francis Burton

Don't piss in my ear and tell me it's raining. — Gene Hackman

It's real simple - we all have nightmares, and the idea you can be in real jeopardy in them is a great gimmick. It's universal. — Robert Englund

Robert Duvall taught me years ago. He said, "You know theatre is not real. I don't like plays." You know, he doesn't like plays. And I agree with him in certain ways, you know. They can be fun. I don't mind going to see them. I went and saw Phantom of the Opera. I thought hey, that's cool. Look at the mask and all that. — Billy Bob Thornton

And so, like Moses (cf Ex 3, 5), in spirit we remove the shoes from our feet, on the threshold of the inner sanctuary that each of us must become as we meet the Lord. — Pope John Paul II

Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare. — C.S. Lewis

For most people, there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set. If a thing happens on television, we have every right to find it fascinating, whatever it is. — Don DeLillo

We take a lot of care with lyrics because we don't want to offend anybody. — Bill Haley

It seems to me that this debate, whether Islam is a religion of peace or not, really, it's irrelevant for outsiders. It's for Muslims to decide whether it's a religion of peace or not. — Chuck Todd

Fundamentalism is a 20th-century phenomenon, but that kind of religious fervor actually has not always been associated with conservative goals. — Jeff Sharlet