N Iz Learned A Lot Quotes & Sayings

Some years later I met Queen Elizabeth II, in our capital Ottawa at a Canada Day celebration. David Foster and I were doing the show and we both met her afterwards. She told me how much she loved the Canadian Railroad Trilogy. She looked at me and said, "oh, that song", and then said again, "that song", and that was all she said. — Gordon Lightfoot

God is always faithful to His promises, but He often surprises us in the way He fulfills them. — Pope Benedict XVI

He was tongue-tied in the presence of a fourteen-month-old baby. All the things he thought of saying, like 'Who's Daddy's little boy, then?' sounded horribly false, as though he'd got them from a book. There was nothing to say, nor, in this soft pastel room, anything that needed to be said. — Terry Pratchett

Reason is nothing without imagination. — Rene Descartes

We got a lot of politicians up there on Capital Hill. Ain't it funny how they prosper while the country stands still? — Waylon Jennings

The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry with them from the conventions of the computer field. — Ted Nelson

In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner. — E. O. Wilson

I always like to go to Washington D.C. It gives me a chance to visit my money. — Bob Hope

I think fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition. — Ethan Canin

The mode in which that glory is to be seen in the present is praise. "I will sing praise to my God while I have being." The glory of God, said the theologian Irenaeus, is a human being fully alive. — N. T. Wright

I am a member of the Peace Society because I was a soldier: because I have fought and seen what war is like from personal experience. It was on the battlefield that I pledged myself to the cause of peace. — Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

He thought himself a mighty prince, but before the Lord (that is, in God's account) he was but a mighty hunter. Note, Great conquerors are but great hunters. Alexander and Caesar would not make such a figure in scripture-history as they do in common history; — Matthew Henry

I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;Her coat is one of the tabby kind,with tiger stripes and lepard spots. — T. S. Eliot

Hey, Walks Like An Egyptian, how about for once you drop the formal stuff and talk like you live in the twenty-first century?" "The shit's gonna splatter, start buggin', yo," Mencheres responded instantly. — Jeaniene Frost