Plickers App Quotes & Sayings

If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead. — John Vianney

No medicine man these days can afford to be without a portable tape recorder. Without the aid of this modern device, which may be easily concealed in the undergrowth of the jungle, the old tribal authority will rapidly become undermined by the mounting influenece of modern skepticism. — Muriel Spark

This life is too much trouble, far too strange, to arrive at the end of it and then to be asked what you make of it and have to answer 'Scientific humanism.' That won't do. A poor show. Life is a mystery, love is a delight. Therefore I take it as axiomatic that one should settle for nothing less than the infinity mystery and the infinite delight, i.e., God. In fact I demand it. I refuse to settle for anything less. I don't see why anyone should settle for less than Jacob, who actually grabbed aholt of God and would not let go until God identified himself and blessed him.

From the article titled "Questions They Never Asked Me — Walker Percy

I am happy to be alive. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I bought a Dutch barge and turned it into a recording studio. My plan was to go to Paris and record rolling down the Seine. — Pete Townshend

The moment this brilliant young producer Miss Verity Lambert started telling me about Doctor Who, I was hooked. I remember telling her, This is going to run for five years. And look what's happened! — William Hartnell

If I die, I am so coming back to haunt you."
"You can even watch me shower. — Jennifer Harlow

It is difficult to understand why statisticians commonly limit their inquiries to Averages, and do not revel in more comprehensive views. Their souls seem as dull to the charm of variety as that of the native of one of our flat English counties, whose retrospect of Switzerland was that, if its mountains could be thrown into its lakes, two nuisances would be got rid of at once. — Francis Galton

I think serving your government is the greatest thing in the world. — Alphonso Jackson

She belonged to the common type: without ever really thinking it over in detail, she had considered herself a woman like the rest, with no reason for anything to happen to her that didn't also happen to all other women. It was as if this sort of thing happened to someone else, to an absolute someone else, which is to say, as if it didn't happen to anyone. — Cesar Aira

People don't understand the virtue of time, until their clock stops ticking. — Steve Goodman

I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing. — Henry Miller

I put myself around good people, including my assistant coaches. A lot of head coaches are intimidated by their assistant coaches, they'd rather get people that are far less talented than them because it's not threatening. — Tony DiCicco

People who have had power, when they become powerless, are really tragic ... We just allow ourselves to be conditioned by a society so we become as important as we're supposed to be. — Maggie Kuhn

Successful people ask questions. They seek new teachers. They're always learning. — Robert Kiyosaki