Padala Quotes & Sayings

My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury. — Brandi Carlile

What we should see is that there is none among us with nothing to give, and that giving is our purpose. — Nell Gavin

Wherever you are, be all there. — Craig Groeschel

And I am, above anything else, grateful. For all of it. — Theresa Mieczkowski

Sometimes, when you are really attached to an ideal, it is just not possible to compromise. — Kate Kerrigan

I like writing comic pages, discovering the rhythm of the panels, learning how much you can and can't express. It's good to stretch myself as a writer instead of always doing prose work; I write screenplays for the same reason. — Chris Wooding

Skate, if it were possible to choose who we fall in love with, no one would ever get it done, because we'd all be chasing after this ideal person who doesn't even exist. — Genevieve Dewey

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it. — Peter Ustinov

We know from Philo there was already a Jewish tradition of a preexistent being named Jesus who was the Form of God (Element 40). It cannot be claimed Philo came up with this notion on his own, since that would entail a wildly improbable coincidence. So we surely are looking at a derivation from an earlier Divine Logos doctrine. Then we're told this Jesus did not try to seize power from God in heaven (as by some accounts Satan had once done, resulting in his fall to the lower realms), but instead divested himself of all his power and higher being, enslaving himself (either to God's plan or the world of flesh) by 'being made' [genomenos] in the 'likeness' of men (not literally becoming a man, but assuming a human body, and thus wearing human 'flesh'). — Richard C. Carrier

It was almost as if he'd been a ghost in all those rooms, all those days, a ghost in his own life. — Cynthia Voigt

When it comes to fake food, I'm like Samuel Johnson, who remarked, "Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult." In other words, I can give something up altogether, but I can't indulge occasionally. — Gretchen Rubin