Mudpies Quotes & Sayings

I grew up sort of a geeky, tall kid, and I think I was always the one trying to make my friends laugh. — Sutton Foster

Before the first year, nobody gave it a chance. Now, 36 years later, everybody knows Monday Night Football. — Frank Gifford

Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still — Wislawa Szymborska

Tremendous concentrations of paper wealth have made it possible for a few persons or institutions to endow certain sorts of human playfulness with inappropriate and hence distressing seriousness. I think not only of the mudpies of art, but of children's games as well-running, jumping, catching, throwing.
Or dancing.
Or singing songs. — Kurt Vonnegut

Every new technology represents a trade-off: something is gained, but something is also lost. — Bee Wilson

In a sense, the music business and I haven't always been the best of bedfellows. Artists often have to fight their corner. Your music goes through these filters of record labels and media, and you're hoping you'll find someone who'll help you get your work into the world. — Annie Lennox

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime. — Arthur Conan Doyle

The choices of roles I made had to do with educating and entertaining. And as a result I found myself working only every two or three years. — Cicely Tyson

Winston could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war ... war had literally been continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil. — George Orwell

There's nothing like overcoming something that scares you so much. Nothing feels better. — Laura Wilkinson

I enjoy seeing people have fun. — Roberto Cavalli

I had an amazing experience with 'Third Watch'. I was so happy when 'The Game' came back because I never wanted it to end. And then with 'Burn Notice,' too. — Coby Bell

I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I had needed a size thirty-eight bra instead of a modest thirty-four. — Evelyn Keyes

The skies gave way to the full ascendence of morning and clouds skittered across the expanse, the variations on a nebulous theme woven on a celestial loom. — Michelle Franklin

The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are, literally, patriarchal - God is the Omnipotent Father - hence the loathing of women for 2,000 years in those countries afflicted by the sky-god and his earthly male delegates. - GORE VIDAL — Richard Dawkins

The only logical answer to the question of why Elijah needed to pray is to imply that God has chosen to work through people. Even when it is the Lord himself initiating something, earnestly desiring to do it, He still needs us to ask. — Dutch Sheets