Monteverdis Quotes & Sayings

Brian: I love books
Prof. Morrison: The contents of books, or just owning a whole load of books? — David Nicholls

I was never afraid to go back to Pittsburgh and work in the steel mills. — David Tepper

In the Bible, God never gives anyone an easy job. God never comes to Abraham, or Moses, or Esther and says, "I'd like you to do me a favor, but it really shouldn't take much time. I wouldn't want to inconvenience you." God does not recruit like someone from the PTA. He is always intrusive, demanding, exhausting. He says we should expect that the world will be hard, and that our assignments will be hard. — John Ortberg

I didn't have this tortured childhood; I liked it. — John Hughes

Apocalypse is now a long-running serial: not "Apocalypse Now" but "Apocalypse From Now On. — Susan Sontag

We ought not to be in too much of a hurry here to speak piously of God's will and guidance. It is obvious, and it should not be ignored, that it is your own very human wills that are at work here, celebrating their triumph; the course that you are taking at the outset is one that you have chosen for yourselves ... — Dietrich Bonhoeffer