Martin Player's Ball Quotes & Sayings

Shortly afterward, I sat puzzled, grieving over the state of our church. "I think I've lost hope in the church," I confessed, brokenhearted, to a friend. I will never forget her response. "No, you haven't lost hope in the church. You may have lost hope in Christianity or Christendom or all the institutions, but you have not lost hope in the church. This is the church." At that moment, we decided to stop complaining about the church we saw, and we set our hearts on becoming the church we dreamed of. — Shane Claiborne

Can a truly absurd universe so convincingly mimic a meaningful one? — Paul Davies

We make allowance for necessity. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Inevitably, if you see a person daily in his own home over several months, you will cease to regard him as a patient and come to know him as a person. — Jennifer Worth

It felt like there was a dark spot in my heart. Like a bruise. And it was getting deeper and wider with every lie I told. — Wendelin Van Draanen

The night was aromatic with the smell of autumn and the steely fragrance of freshly dampened blacktop. How she loved the smell of road: asphalt baking and soft in July, dirt roads with their dust-and-pollen perfume in June, country lanes spicy with the odor of crushed leaves in sober October, the sand-and-salt smell of the highway, so like an estuary, in February. — Joe Hill

It's not cold in here, you're just dying. — Sarah Silverman

There has been a great difficulty in getting anything into the heads of this generation. It has been like splitting hemlock knots with a corn-dodger for a wedge and a pumpkin for a beetle. — Sam Smith

He didn't like the way things were going.
There were bad omens in the wind, evil portents like bats fluttering in the dark loft of a deserted barn. — Stephen King

I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that ... — Louisa May Alcott

Carl Orff's Carmina Burana has the ability to take you from placidity to power in one sonic breath. It is music of dignity and strength, with primitive, energetic passages, evoking absolute beauty from the simplest of phrases. It brings up something that has everything to do with significance - squeezing joy and motif that you just can't drop - it stays with you. — Robert Genn