Olford Institute Quotes & Sayings

I think any decent comedy worth its salt has to have heart, otherwise it's just a bunch of jokes. I think people enjoy comedies that have a heart and soul to them. — Tom Bennett

if you love him, don't choose to be alone. — Brenna Aubrey

In the human society, it is difficult to find all angels flapping there wings and all saints singing halleluya. — Late Chief Gani Fahewinmi

I love the theater because the theater is alive. The audience is right there. — Chita Rivera

The American appetite for loneliness impressed me, and there was something about this solitude that freed conversation. One night at a bar, I met a man, and within five minutes he explained that he had just been released from prison. Another drinker told me that his wife had passed away, and he had recently suffered a heart attack, and now he hoped that he would die within the year. I learned that there's no reliable small talk in America; at any moment a conversation can become personal. — Peter Hessler

When man fell from grace, he lost a kingdom, not a religion. He lost dominion over the earth; He did not lose Heaven. Therefore, mankind's search is not for a religion or for Heaven but for his kingdom. — Myles Munroe

One of the greatest reforms that could be, in these reforming days ... would be to have women architects. The mischief with the houses built to rent is that they are all male contrivances. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

First, let me make it very clear, poor people aren't necessarily killers. Just because you happen to be not rich doesn't mean you're willing to kill. — George W. Bush

Most people want peace without the aloneness of [spiritual] power. And they want the self-confidence of adulthood without having to grow up. — M. Scott Peck

I always carry prayer cards to St. Jude and St. Martha with me. — Patsy Kensit

Even though you're disappointed, you didn't forget to still love him, did you? — Priscilla Glenn

I awoke only to find that the rest of the world was still asleep. — Leonardo Da Vinci

It's been a continuity right from the beginning - that longing to weave together perceptions, to affirm the richness of us as human beings both as performers and audience members. — Meredith Monk