Ncepu Quotes & Sayings

According to Mednick, after sleep, people are 33 percent more likely to be creative. — Robert Genn

God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion. — Bono

Don't be impatient with yourself. Just be in awe. — Pat Rodegast

I had an upbringing in which I was allowed to be free and use my mind. My parents only helped me to be myself.It was only in my teenage years that I met people who made me start having doubts about who I was. They said you shouldn't be confident, you shouldn't be strong. It is only when you meet those other people that you lose confidence. — Juliette Lewis

(In schools) There is an emphasis on doing things right rather on doing the right things. — Thomas J. Sergiovanni

I am pretty scare-able. I guess that is why I like doing horror because my imagination can take me places. — Annabeth Gish

How pitiable is it to reflect, that although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of Mankind, and of his equal and impartial distribution of these rights and privileges, which he hath conferred upon them, that you should at the same time counteract his mercies, in detaining by fraud and violence so numerous a part of my brethren, under groaning captivity and cruel oppression, that you should at the same time be found guilty of that most criminal act, which you professedly detested in others, with respect to yourselves — Benjamin Banneker

Written words differ from spoken words in being material structures. A spoken word is a process in the physical world, having an essential time-order; a written word is a series of pieces of matter, having an essential space-order. — Bertrand Russell

When you do bigger films, the financiers take more risks. — Dougray Scott

What is more powerful than the love of a mother? Perhaps only God's hand in answering her earnest pleadings on your behalf. — Richelle E. Goodrich

If we are going to achieve a real equality, the U.S. will have to adopt a modified form of Socialism. — Martin Luther King Jr.

With the exception of my wife and children, there's nothing I value more than my Oklahoma heritage. — James Garner

Let no man pretend to fear sin that does not fear temptation also! These two are too closely united to be separated. He does not truly hate the fruit who delights in the root. — John Owen

Creating music to fit the marketplace, so that music can be heard? If ever I thought that I even came close to catering to the marketplace, or designing my productions and my music to cater to what is currently fashionable, I would sell shoes for a living. For me, the marketplace can rot in hell. I will do music for the love of music and for the love of people who listen to music, and absolutely nothing else will drive me. — Daniel Lanois

Miss Lea, it doesn't do to get attached to these secondary characters. It's not their story. — Diane Setterfield