Paraphrasing Block Quotes & Sayings

I don't want to say anything about my kids ... but I go to PTA meetings under an assumed name! — Robert Orben

Performances are so defined by their venues - it'd be nice for the music to dictate more of the reaction. — Anna Meredith

All fundamentalist theologians make the ordinances of creation an essential part of creation and absolutize them. Women belong at home, fulfil their life through motherhood, by caring for their husbands and serving them. The fixed role pattern of one particular economic and family order is transformed into an order willed by God and given by creation. With a methodologically similar logic, slaves were understood as those elected by God to serve the whites. — Dorothee Solle

Hitchcock used to believe that if there were three or four memorable scenes in a film that would be enough to drive it, but I don't know if that's true or not. — Clint Eastwood

We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Euripides questioned everything. He was a misanthrope who preferred books to men. — Edith Hamilton

I didn't hear any of that," he said. "You didn't?" "Nope. Chivalry occasionally causes deafness. — Merrie Haskell