Prozapass Quotes & Sayings

I get scared to death when I see people who say they've found Jesus Christ, and they're out there, and I wonder, who's teaching them? Who's mentoring them? — Willie Aames

Safety was one thing, but what he really wanted was to be electrified, to be wounded, to be cast into the wilderness, to be released, to be exalted, and most especially to be surrounded by the drowning noise and ebullience and casual presence of friends calling out his name, demanding his presence. — Carol Shields

Sometimes it's not a spiritual problem; you just need a nap! — Pam Farrel

What work a person does to earn a viable income shapes their thinking patterns, buttresses their sense of self-worth, and affects how they adapt to predictable and unpredictable obstacles. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Bismarck was a large persian cat owned by Florence Nightingale. — Florence Nightingale

You wouldn't tolerate an underperforming surgeon in an operating theatre, or a underperforming midwife at your child's birth. Why is it that we tolerate underperforming teachers in the classroom? — Michael Gove

Living in a country with lots of problems is living in Hell! Unless you create your own heaven where you can think freely, work freely, breath freely and rise freely, you too burn in that Hell! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I told them what I had discovered about Nabokov's sentences: Because the word string and the thoughts behind the words are so original, the reader's brain can't jump ahead. There is no opportunity to make assumptions, no mental leapfrogging to the end of the sentence. So the reader is suspended in the perfect moment of now. You can only experience now. The sentences celebrate the absolute instant of creation. It takes your breath away. — Leslie Daniels