Ponosna Sam Quotes & Sayings

My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences. — Cassandra Wilson

When the subject is sacred, proud and clever men may come to think that the outsiders who don't know it are not merely inferior to them in skill but lower in God's eyes; as the priests said, 'All that rabble who are not experts in the Torah are accursed.' and as this pride increases, the 'subject' or study which confers such privilege will grow more and more complicated, the list of things forbidden will increase, till to get through a single day without supposed sin becomes like an elaborate step-dance, and this horrible network breeds self-righteousness in some and haunting anxiety in others. — C.S. Lewis

Extra miles, extensive preparation and exhaustive efforts usually show astonishing results. — Roopleen

It is interesting to work in Las Vegas. I've always thought of Las Vegas as Los Angeles on its day off. There's not any hierarchy of taste, and that's what L.A. always was to me: It's not really a town of culture, it's a town of entertainment. — James Turrell

It feels wonderful when you fly with hopes and dreams. — Debasish Mridha

Only those who see that the two sides of all phenomena, visible and invisible, are front and back or beginning and end of one reality can embrace any antagonistic situation, see its complementarity , and help others to do the same, thereby establishing peace and harmony. — George Ohsawa

Churches that depart from the Word will soon find that God has departed from them. — Robert Godfrey

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge. — William Gaddis

Rat sculled gently homewards in a dreamy mood, murmuring poetry-things over to himself, — Kenneth Grahame

When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, because persecution had been such a burden to Jewish families for generations. — Bruce Feiler

And he sat in the corner and laughed as the flames consumed everything, crawling over the sadness and crackling it with life. — Andersen Prunty

Our life is made by the death of others. — Leonardo Da Vinci

I should have run away from you and started college and gone on without you. But I would always have regretted it if I didn't give this a shot.
- Tiffany — Jennifer Echols