Premila Mathews Quotes & Sayings

In a general way, a major goal of the propagandist is to seek some kind of authoritative backing for the belief he or she is propagating. — Randal Marlin

I was aware of an unexpected drift towards intimacy, although this sudden sense of knowing her all at once much better was not simultaneously accompanied by any clear portrayal in my own mind of the kind of person she might really be. Perhaps intimacy of any sort, love or friendship, impedes all exactness of definition. — Anthony Powell

When, in short, we shall have unlearned everything which has been taught since his [Jesus'] day, and got back to the pure and simple doctrines he inculcated, we shall then be truly and worthily his disciples: and my opinion is that if nothing had ever been added to what flowed purely from his lips, the whole world would at this day have been Christian. — Thomas Jefferson

But how do you ever know that you know a person? — Anita Shreve

Bonkers is kind of a combination of Jerry Lewis and Harpo Marx, which is very strange because Harpo never spoke! — Jim Cummings

Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive. — Josephine Tey

I started singing with the Amboy Dukes in '87. I sang 'Oh Baby Please Don't Go,' the old Van Morrison song by Joey Smith. I started singing more from then on. — Ted Nugent

READ. You have no business wanting to be a writer unless you are a reader. You should read fantasies and essays, biographies and poetry, fables and fairy tales. Read, read, read, read, read. — Kate DiCamillo

They say 'Wine is Satan's falcon,' apparently he uses it in hunting men! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

He is a rare bird,' the maester said. 'Most ravens will eat grain, but they prefer flesh. It makes them strong, and I fear they relish the taste of blood. In that they are like men ... and like men, not all ravens are alike. — George R R Martin

In Thine own good time, so order the things in our life that we may end in the calm, quiet peace of those whose hearts are stayed upon God. - George Dawson (1821 — Robert J. Morgan