Plainsong Quotes & Sayings

I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable. — John Lydon

we must by every means implant in the field of our heart the seeds of the virtues, faith, hope in God, and love for God and our neighbour, — John Of Kronstadt

...the heart is an organ of fire. — Michael Ondaatje

Ah yes, the paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it's killing off the chance of another reader happening across our book in the ideal state of innocence. — Emma Donoghue

The wealth of America isn't an inventory of goods; it's an organic,
living entity, a fragile, pulsing fabric of ideas, expectations, loyalties,
moral commitments, visions, and people. To slice it up like an apple
pie and redistribute it would destroy it just as surely as trying to share
Stephen Hawking's intellect by sharing slices of his brain would surely
kill him. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

You can be the ugliest man in the world but once you got money, you can have all the women in the world. — Jonathan Anthony Burkett

IMITATION CITRUS FLAVORED DIETARY ARTIFICIALLY SWEETENED CARBONATED BEVERAGE. That, I submit, is not a label; it is an incantation. Someday, it should be set to a suitable plainsong tune or Anglican chant. — Robert Farrar Capon

He slept curled up on the hard rock more soundly than ever he had done on his feather-bed in his own little hole at home. But all night he dreamed of his own house and wandered in his sleep into all his different rooms looking for something that he could not find nor remember what it looked like. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Sight is a promiscuous sense. The avid gaze always wants more. — Susan Sontag

I'M SCURRYING AROUND THE HOUSE, TRYING TO DECIDE WHAT I should pack (cloth diapers, knitted booties, cotton jumpers?) and what I should leave behind (cloth diapers, knitted booties, cotton jumpers?) when I'm stopped in my tracks by the lowing and braying of the animals in the barn. — Megan McCafferty