Plucked Pleasanton Quotes & Sayings

Yes indeed, both Muslim and Jewish!I, her father, am Muslim, at least on paper; her mother is Jewish, at least in theory. With us, religion is transmitted through the father; among Jews, through the mother. Therefore, according to the Muslims, Nadia was Muslim; according to the Jews, she was Jewish. She herself might have chosen one or the other, or neither, she chose to be both at once ... Yes, both at once and more. She was proud of all the bloodlines that had converged in her, roads of conquest or exile from central Asia, Anatolia, the Ukraine, Arab, Bessarabia, Armenia, Bavaria ... She refused to divide out her blood, her soul. — Amin Maalouf

There are some fantastic parts for older actors. — Ian McKellen

The highest truths cannot be forced into the type of empirical evidence that only applies to material reality. — Pope Benedict XVI

Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf. — Orson Scott Card

Wherever we look in the ancient world the past has been controlled, but nowhere more rigorously than in the history of the Christian church. The methods of control, wherever we find them, fall under three general heads which might be described as (a) the invention, (b) the destruction, and (c) the alteration of documents. — Hugh Nibley

Crumb was such an influence on me. He's such a visionary, such a great artist, that he so shaped my artistic sensibilities on a certain level that I do owe everything to him. The way I see the world is largely changed by him. — Terry Zwigoff

But every time she tried yoga she found herself silently chanting her own mantra: I'm so boooored, I'm so boooored. — Liane Moriarty