Nancy Roper Quotes & Sayings

People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time. — Don McLean

The only difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England, Franklin joked, is that the former is infallible while the latter is never in the wrong. — Jill Lepore

And just as there are no words for the surface, that is,
No words to say what it really is, that it is not
Superficial but a visible core, then there is
No way out of the problem of pathos vs. experience. — John Ashbery

What is your name?" I asked.
"Thorn."
"Thorn?"
"If you touch me, you bleed. — P.A. Ross

Refuse to be content with the knowledge of God. Insist on experiencing His presence. — John Paul Warren

Life is a series of decisions Ella, and some of us make the wrong ones. — James Turner

If she's gonna love again, it won't be an eternity but a hard, fast conflagration that leaves everyone else in the embers. — Lindsay Detwiler

The sun was out for once, and Inej had turned her face to it. Her eyes were shut, her oil-black lashes fanned over her cheeks. The harbor wind had lifted her dark hair, and for a moment Kaz was a boy again, sure that there was magic in this world. — Leigh Bardugo

If it was never new and it never gets old, then it's a folk song — Oscar Isaac

Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell. — Ottessa Moshfegh

Well who can truly understand politics any more, ever since they all went professional it's all sort of blurred with the entertainments industry. — Steve Merrick

Whereas today people often understate their age to census takers, studies of past censuses have revealed that they used to overstate it. — Atul Gawande

Believe. The promise of God are real. They are as real, as solid, yes infinitely more solid than this table which the materialist so thoroughly believes in. If you would only believe, O ye of little faith. — George Washington Carver

Horseradish is one of those perk-me-ups. You can use it in a cocktail sauce, you can bread fish with it - it loses its punch when cooked. It's a 'What is that?' flavor. It adds depth of flavor to things. — Tom Douglas

We never know we go, - when we are going
We jest and shut the door;
Fate following behind us bolts it,
And we accost no more. — Emily Dickinson