Panier Quotes & Sayings

Try all things by the written word, and let all bow down before it. You are in danger of [fanaticism] every hour, if you depart ever so little from Scripture; yea, or from the plain, literal meaning of an text, taken in connection with the context. — John Wesley

The important thing is to be in love with something. — Ray Bradbury

God loves to use ordinary people just like you and me, faults and all, to do extraordinary things. — Joel Osteen

I'm English. I can't accept happiness that easily. There's got to be a trick in there somewhere. — David Bowie

Physicists say we are made of stardust. Intergalactic debris and far-flung atoms, shards of carbon nanomatter rounded up by gravity to circle the sun. As atoms pass through an eternal revolving door of possible form, energy and mass dance in fluid relationship. We are stardust, we are man, we are thought. We are story. — Glenda Burgess

And I want you to find something in the hills for the vigils to protect, like a rock or a thornbush. I don't want them around here. — Jennifer A. Nielsen

Statistics indicate that the church is rapidly losing in the population explosion. There are fewer Christians per capita every day. — Billy Graham

I can pick out people in this city to follow. I can be in a show at the Museum of Modern Art, my space in the Museum of Modern Art is my mailbox, my mail is delivered there. Whenever I want mail, I have to go through this city to get my mail. — Vito Acconci

I got all A's and was hated for it; I spoke correctly and was called a punk. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

That was when something hit me. The white suit he was wearing wasn't just a fashion choice. I mean, who actually dresses like that? Nobody, at least nobody in reality. Yeah, Ok, his big friend was in standard spook/secret service/bodyguard gear, but this guy? He was a walking cliche. It was like somebody said to me, Hey Chris, can you imagine a Colombian drug lord for me please? And this guy had popped up as the end result. — Luke Smitherd

Every time you stand at a crossroads of life and death, you have two universes in front of you; one loses all relation to you because you die, the other maintains its relation to you because you survive in it. Just as you would take off your clothes, you abandon the universe in which you are still alive. In other words, various universes emerge around each of us the way tree limbs and leaves branch away from the trunk. — Kenzaburo Oe

One of my greatest failures:
I was trying to cut a piece of moment so that I could erase it.
One of my greatest achievements:
I have learnt to ignore my futureless past. — Munia Khan

I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of WORK, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in the organised diminution of work. — Bertrand Russell