Pummell Drive Quotes & Sayings

A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect? — George Orwell

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness — Aristotle.

I was eighteen now, just gone. Eighteen was not a young age. At eighteen old Wolfgang Amadeus had written concertos and symphonies and operas and oratorios and all that cal, no, not cal, heavenly music. And then there was old Felix M. with his "Midsummer Night's Dream" Overture. And there were others. And there was this like French poet set by old Benjy Britt, who had done all his best poetry by the age of fifteen, O my brothers. Arthur, his first name. Eighteen was not all that young an age then. But what was I going to do? — Anthony Burgess

Dictating condolences to the mother of a murdered husband whom you've been busily cuckolding for the last three years would take more than his limited social vocabulary. — P.D. James

Christian nonviolence must be embodied in a community that is an alternative to the world's violence. — Stanley Hauerwas

I know how to make other women look beautiful: from hair to makeup to wardrobe. So, I feel that I have a gift with imaging, and that's kind of fundamental to the music video process. — Nia Long

You can't take life for granted. — Jennifer Lopez

I would never suggest anyone to stay at a company more than six or seven years. We grow as individuals and the world is moving so fast. Typically, I'll always sell a piece of each of my companies along the way. — J. Christopher Burch

When you hold onto a script that doesn't serve you, you leave no space to write a new one that does. — Jennifer Ho-Dougatz

I'm a pirate princess," I told them, "And no matter how far inland you take me, my heart will always belong to the sea. — Catherine Banks

If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans. — Omar Bongo

Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

We've replaced the proclamation of Christ with an easy-listening legalism of do more and try harder. — R.C. Sproul

A man after God's own heart is ...
a man who yearns to please God,
a man who desires to grow spiritually,
a man who had a heart that obeys. — Jim George