Jonathan Letterman Quotes & Sayings

It is naive to suppose that something that has been expressed in one form can be expressed in another without significantly changing its meaning, texture or value. Much prose translates fairly well from one language to another, but we know that poetry does not; we may get a rough idea of the sense of a translated poem but usually everything else is lost, especially that which makes it an object of beauty. The translation makes it into something it was not. — Neil Postman

I was in a couple punk bands as a kid. I did some more experimental stuff with my friend Dan for a few years. — Venetian Snares

Idolatry, especially that of the body, is for Athanasius a kind of barometer, measuring the perversity into which humans have fallen, the degree to which their knowledge of God has been lost, and the extent to which the image of God in them obscured, the consequence of which is corruption and death. — Athanasius Of Alexandria

Living is a thing you do now or never which do you? — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Intention, good or bad, is not enough. — John Steinbeck

You define beauty for yourself, society doesn't define your beauty. Your spirit and your faith defines your beauty. — Lady Gaga

God made a whole beautiful earth and decided to put you in it, to experience all of this beauty. You can't do that watching television all the time. — Donald Miller

We are all wealth. We are all treasure. We are the abundance of all things. Spend yourself completely. — Bryant McGill

I was sitting in a white room hating myself, until you breathed life back into me. You loved me so much that I started to love myself. — Tarryn Fisher

Sawyer laughs and wraps a ginormous arm around my shoulder. "Gidge, dogs are all well and good, and it's true that men like them, but he'd rather have a kitty. Your kitty. — S.E. Hall

Ruffian he had once been, before Christ and Mrs. — Elizabeth Gilbert

-"I remember my father telling me about England's redrawing of India's boundaries when it became independent. They wanted to separate the Hindu from the Muslim, but they used outdated maps. Twelve million people had to relocate because the Brits screwed it up so badly. And a half million people died during the resulting chaos. And before that, Iraq was unilaterally cobbled together, causing many of the conflicts we see today. There are dozens of such examples. The strong countries smashing the weaker ones and then avoiding responsibility later for the very problems they caused."
-"You keep proving my point, Tom, that we're rotten to the core."
-"My point is we never learn! — David Baldacci

For us what was killing was how nothing had changed. We'd been waiting to be transformed, and now here we were, back in our old life. — Elizabeth McCracken

As we talked I thought about him being gone. I thought about washing my sheets. I thought about the likelihood of him wanting to see me again. Mostly I thought about organizing my books alphabetically and dancing by myself to George Harrison songs. — Kendra Grant Malone

I grow old, I grow old, the center will not fold. In youth I had hardening of the categories and looked for the father and the mother in every lover. Then I cracked. Then I fragmented. Then the old man in my soul found the god in herself, not in some Jungian fairy tale but in the flesh that fell from the bones and the words that came into my mouth when the look went out of their eyes. — Jennifer Stone