La Grande Scommessa Quotes & Sayings

Let me feel your love one more time before I abandon it. — Bob Dylan

He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all. — Sinclair Lewis

Would I serve you or (Prince) Jon stolen goods? he asked. No, don't answer me. — Tamora Pierce

I believe it could be shown in researches - which obviously cannot be gone into here - that when a culture is in its historical phase of growing toward unity, its language reflects the unity and power; whereas when a culture is in the process of change, dispersal and disintegration, the language likewise loses its power. "When I was eighteen, Germany was eighteen," said Goethe, referring not only to the fact that the ideals of his nation were then moving toward unity and power, but that the language, which was his vehicle of power as a writer, was also in that stage. In our day the study of semantics is of considerable value, to be sure, and is to be commended. But the disturbing question is why we have to talk so much about what words mean that, once we have learned each other's language, we have little time or energy left for communicating. — Rollo May

Today the greatest single deterrent to knowledge of Jesus is His familiarity. Because we think we know Him, we pass Him by. — Winifred Kirkland

And the whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poisoned oil. — Hunter S. Thompson

I will take any liberty I want with facts as long as I don't trespass on the truth ... We confuse facts with truth. — Farley Mowat

[E]ven today, when confident and self-affirmative lesbian identities have emerged and are available to women, images of 'lesbianism' are still regularly appropriated by a male heterosexual pornographic imagination which cannot accept that this is one party to which men are not invited and at which their presence is not necessary. — Nivedita Menon

Opera Australia has a mix - it produces new work, it produces from the classical repertoire and, particularly in more recent years, it's done those blockbuster musicals which are very lucrative for it and reach an audience that classic opera or a new opera perhaps wouldn't reach, like South Pacific for example. — George Brandis

Have you noticed how often it happens that a really good idea
the kind of idea that looks, as it approaches, like the explanation for everything about everything
tends to hover near at hand when you are thinking hard about something quite different? There you are, halfway into a taxi, thinking about the condition of the cartilage in the right knee joint, and suddenly, with a whirring sound, in flies a new notion looking for a place to light. You'd better be sure you have a few bare spots, denuded of anything like thought, ready for its perching, or it will fly away into the dark. — Lewis Thomas

I guess there should be somewhere on the Internet that feels like a source of sacred truth. But Wikipedia sure isn't it. — Nick Kroll