Panicali Quotes & Sayings

You know, when you're making a record, you come up with 15, 20 songs. Then they start to fall by the wayside as your interest wanes. It's kind of like a process of elimination to determine which songs wind up on the record. — David Johansen

The rain is the sky crying for the death of summer. — Fabian Black

The habits that took years to build, do not take a day to change. — Susan Powter

Everybody know death is inevitably coming, but it never fails to catch everybody by surprise everytime one is going — Hlovate

If you don't take change by the hand, it will take you by the throat. — Winston Churchill

The judge in the Saddam trial appears to be wearing comedy specs and moustache. — Eddie Mair

Round the cabin stood half a dozen mountain ashes, as the rowans, inimical to witches, are there called. On the worn planks of the door were nailed two horse-shoes, and over the lintel and spreading along the thatch, grew, luxuriant, patches of that ancient cure for many maladies, and prophylactic against the machinations of the evil one, the house-leek. Descending into the doorway, in the chiaroscuro of the interior, when your eye grew sufficiently accustomed to that dim light, you might discover, hanging at the head of the widow's wooden-roofed bed, her beads and a phial of holy water — J. Sheridan Le Fanu

But I was not especially skilled at minding children for long spells; I grew bored, perhaps like my own mother. After I spent too much time playing their games, my mind grew peckish and longed to lose itself in some book I had in my backpack. I was ever hopeful of early bedtimes and long naps. — Lorrie Moore

On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me. — Rodney Dangerfield

I've snapped and plotted all my life. There's no other way to be a king, alive and fifty all at the same time. — James Goldman

Flowers remind us to put away fear, to stop our rushing and running and worrying about this and that, and for a moment have a piece of paradise right here on earth. God offers healing through flowers and brings us closer to Him. — Jane Kirkpatrick

Vanity is a defensive quality. it contains an element of fear. — Don DeLillo

Prayer helps correct myopia, calling to mind a perspective I daily forget. I keep reversing roles, thinking of ways in which God should serve me, rather than vice versa. As God fiercely reminded Job, the Lord of the universe has many things to manage, and in the midst of my self-pity I would do well to contemplate for a moment God's own point of view. — Philip Yancey