Kerigmatic Quotes & Sayings

Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound. — W. Somerset Maugham

For nothing is deader than a body that once had life and has it no more. — Chris Priestley

Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater. — James Broughton

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Truth is a theory that is constantly being disproved. Only lies, it seems, go on forever. — Eartha Kitt

The first book by an African American I read was Carl T. Rowan's memoir, Go South to Sorrow. I found it on the bookshelf at the back of my fifth-grade classroom, an adult book. I can remember the quality of the morning on which I read. It was a sunlit morning in January, a Saturday morning, cold, high, empty. I sat in a rectangle of sunlight, near the grate of the floor heater in the yellow bedroom. And as I read, I became aware of warmth and comfort and optimism. I was made aware of my comfort by the knowledge that others were not, are not, comforted. Carl Rowan at my age was not comforted. — Richard Rodriguez

It might have been introduced slowly over the course of the years as you recall this memory over and over. So that was a very cool but complex idea that we thought about representing in the film but could not find a way to make it work. — Pete Docter

More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina. — John Irving

If it sells, it's art. — Frank Lloyd Wright

There are nearly 1 million Americans who visit the emergency room each year because of dental pain at a cost that runs into the hundreds of millions. — Miles O'Brien

If I weren't so lazy, I would have 14 books, not eight. — Daniel Woodrell

I think the kind of films and roles I do takes a whole year ... I think it is justified. At some point, we have to come to that place where we are equally paid. It is a small step ... we are headed to that direction. — Kangana Ranaut

Nowhere is America's unease with reproduction better demonstrated than on a 1952 episode of "I Love Lucy." The TV comedy made the bold move to incorporate Lucille Ball's real-life pregnancy into its storyline. The actors, however, weren't allowed to say the word "pregnant. — Anonymous