Pennacchi Masonry Quotes & Sayings

And who among the company at Monseigneur's reception in that seventeen hundred and eightieth year of our Lord, could possibly doubt, that a system rooted in a frizzled hangman, powdered, gold-laced, pumped, and white-silk stockinged, would see the very stars out! — Charles Dickens

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion ... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate. — Dorothea Lange

I sink into it completely, letting everything else fall away so all that's left is this. A moment like a poem. — Jessi Kirby

Everything in us presses toward decision, even toward the wrong decision, just to be free of the anxiety that precedes any big step in life. — May Sarton

Real, sane, mature love - the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school - is not based on infatuation but on affection and respect. — Elizabeth Gilbert

No fate could rob us of our own
No circumstance can make it less;
What time removes was but a loan,
For what was ours we still possess. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle. — Wayne Grady

I'd like to think I could do something great - a performance like Meryl Streep's in 'Sophie's Choice' - at some point in my life. At the same time, though, I don't want to put too much pressure on myself to be great. — Heather Graham

My mom once told me that my dad had given me an alliterative name, Wade Watts, because he thought it sounded like the secret identity of a superhero. Like Peter Parker or Clark Kent. — Ernest Cline

I learned how to direct by being in the trenches of movies. Getting to be a student from the inside looking out, and if you're a respectful observer you can sponge lots of information. That was my film school. — Lake Bell

Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet. — Robert Browning

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned. — James A. Baldwin

I like everything," moaned the robot. "Especially when you shout at me like that. Do it again, please. — Douglas Adams

The secret at the heart of 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter' is something everybody, except for some of the characters, knows in Chapter 1. Some of the narrative tension comes from that distance between what the readers know and what the characters know. — Kim Edwards