Ncouterbanks Quotes & Sayings

Spiritual work is taxing work, and men are loath to do it. Praying, true praying, costs an outlay of serious attention and of time, which flesh and blood do not relish. — E. M. Bounds

When I was seventeen
I drank some very good beer
I drank some very good beer I purchased
With a fake ID
My name was Brian McGee
I stayed up listening to Queen
When I was seventeen — Homer

I can't even find a pond small enough
to drown in without being ostentatious — Frank O'Hara

We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody. — J. Edgar Hoover

I prefer playing characters that are going through turmoil. Most movie characters are just in service to the story. — Jesse Eisenberg

No one would say, 'Hey, I think this medicine works, go ahead and use it.' We have testing, we go to the lab, we try it again, we have refinement. But you know what we do on the last mile? 'Oh, this is a good idea. People will like this. Let's put it out there.' — Sendhil Mullainathan

Her red hair seemed to turn into flames of fire, and smoke billowed through each ear. — Elle Klass

I would love God even if he damned me, because he was so gracious to others. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I want to make sure the cooking industry becomes more and more diverse. — Marcus Samuelsson

Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love. — Richard Bach