Moffatt Quotes & Sayings

Good advertising is a dialog with people ... — Lee Clow

A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion. — J.G. Holland

Whatever doesn't kill you, makes you watch a lot of Cartoon Network and drink mid-price Chardonnay at 11 in the morning. — Conan O'Brien

I have existed before Abraham was born. — James Moffatt

It is manifestly pregnant and has a bulging white belly heavy with its load of kittens. — Kobo Abe

I am not concerned with verisimilitude ... I am not concerned with capturing reality. I am concerned with creating it myself. — Tracey Moffatt

We go outside.
We rake the leaves.
We pile them way up high.
We jump on top.
We toss them up and watch the colors fly.
What can we do with all these leaves?
I know. I have a plan.
We run inside and find old clothes.
We'll make a pumpkin man.
We button all the buttons.
We tie up legs and sleeves.
We fill and stuff the body with lots of crunchy leaves.
We give him gloves.
We give him boots.
We're having so much fun.
It's time to pick a pumpkin head.
We'll find the nicest one.
Some are short and some are tall.
Some are bumpy.
Some are small.
We look around the pumpkin patch.
We find the best of all!
We cut the top to get inside.
We scoop out all the seeds.
We draw a face and cut it out.
A light is all it needs.
We go outside at sunset, put the pumpkin head in place.
Our pumpkin man smiles back at us with a happy, glowing face. — Judith Moffatt

When people run out of probable things to do, they do improbable things. — Joseph Hansen

If there are differences and divisions, let them be healed by counsel, by careful words of loving confrontation that bring repentance in the heart. May none of God's people have to know what it is like to have someone they worship with turn on them with wounding words. If you have a complaint against anyone, you must, for the sake of your soul and the sake of gospel unity and the sake of Christ, go to them. May there be no gossip, no hidden anger or bitterness. "May our lives be all covered with that harvest of righteousness that Jesus Christ produces to the glory of God." (Philippians 1:11) (Moffatt 1922). — Russ Kennedy

Yes, I am Aboriginal but I have the right to be avant-garde like any white artist. — Tracey Moffatt

Your integrity is sacrosanct. It is who you are. Never let anyone step on your integrity - that's absolutely where you must stand solid. — Ret. Gen. Peter Pace

I do an hour's yoga and go running every day. Then I see a picture of myself and I still look like a skinny, potbellied idiot - and I thought I had turned into this superhunk! — Chris Martin

My work may feature brown faces but it could be anybody's story. — Tracey Moffatt

A veteran of the gender wars. — Lorrie Moore