Matarmenning Quotes & Sayings

It's dancing! It's magical, actually. A kind of slowish magic. Like writing with your feet. — Katherine Rundell

Everything foreign is respected, partly because it comes from afar, partly because it is ready made and perfect. — Baltasar Gracian

Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in. — Kingsley Amis

All the papers contained nothing but fantastic stories about the war. However, for several months we had been accustomed to war talk. We had so often packed our service trunks that the whole thing had become tedious. — Manfred Von Richthofen

The efficacy of religion lies precisely in what is not rational, philosophic, nor eternal; its efficacy lies in the unforeseen, the miraculous, the extraordinary. Thus religion attracts more devotion according as it demands more faith - that is to say, as it becomes more incredible to the profane mind. — Henri Frederic Amiel

I have a daughter, Catherine, aged 30. I have a 9-year-old son, Nathaniel, a 7-year-old son, Ridley, and a 6-year-old daughter, Truma. I'm 68. The age gap between the younger kids and me is not something I think about much because I feel physically about like I did when I was 40, or at least, I think I do. — Clyde Edgerton

Suffering became a door for me into the presence of Christ as he really is, not as I expected him to be. — Barbara Bancroft