Monkeyshines Quotes & Sayings

The final test of religious faith ... is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether it can so interpret the ancient verities that they will not become mere escape hatches from responsibilities but instruments of insights into what civilization means. — Reinhold Niebuhr

The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag it back. — Cyril Connolly

I've had heroes in my life - Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth. — Tommy Lasorda

But now, our daily monkeyshines are such, our preoccupations are so low, our language has be come so debased, the words so blunted and damaged, we've said such stupid and dull things, the the higher beings hear only babbling and grunting and TV commercials - the dog-food level of things. This says nothing to them. What pleasure can these higher beings take in this kind of materialism, devoid of higher thought or poetry? As a result, all that we can hear in sleep is matter creaking and hissing and washing, the rustling of plants, and air conditioning. So we are incomprehensible to the higher beings. They can't influence us and they themselves suffer a corresponding privation. — Saul Bellow

Love is like a magic trick
You know you are getting fooled, but still, you stand in line
And pay to see it again and again. — Yarro Rai

Whatever is true about your heart will show up in your actions. — Jim George

They were postmodernism up the pole. — Morrissey

On the Internet, information from Indiana and India is equally cheap and easy to access. — Ethan Zuckerman

A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders. — Honore De Balzac

I make no distinction between poetry and painting. — Joan Miro

The big spells," Mg. Thane answered, his expression plain but his bright eyes smiling. Did he know how much those eyes gave away? — Charlie N. Holmberg

I pray. I go to mass. I even remember to respect my elders and help little old ladies across the street. What the hell did I do to deserve this? — Lora Leigh

For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. — Michael Oakeshott