Repatriating Back Quotes & Sayings

When lions paint pictures men will not always be represented as conquerors. When women translate laws, constitutions, bibles and philosophies, man will not always be the declared heard of the church, the state, and the home. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

These Bibles included the Unrighteous Bible, so called from a printer's error which caused it to proclaim, in I Corinthians, "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall inherit the Kingdom of God?"; and the Wicked Bible, printed by Barker and Lucas in 1632, in which the word not was omitted from the seventh commandment, making it "Thou shalt commit Adultery." There were the Discharge Bible, the Treacle Bible, the Standing Fishes Bible, the Charing Cross Bible and the rest. — Terry Pratchett

Needless to say, the song ["Hallelujah"] was now a climax in every show [of the 2009 Leonard Cohen tour], received like holy scripture. It belonged in a category with seeing Bob Dylan sing "Like a Rolling Stone" or watching Bruce Springsteen perform "Born to Run" - it was an event that people simply wanted to witness, to say they had seen. It took on a power that had to do with the song's history first, its feeling second, and its details hardly at all. Every performance carried with it a sense of where this song had been, who had sung it,where and how every listener had first encountered it; it had reached a place where it was something to be experienced, rather than listened to. — Alan Light

The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish. — Alfred North Whitehead

One writes things and the implications shriek- it's like suddenly realizing one's deaf. — John Fowles

THE WORLD NEEDS MORE LIGHTHOUSES You can join the millions talking in the dark. Or you can stand up and scream light, out into the — Pleasefindthis

Just mention wine and pizza together in the same sentence and I'll come running. — Rich Amooi

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship ... the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. — Peter F. Drucker

There is a land where a man, to live, must be a man. — Harold Bell Wright

The universe is wired to give us what we need, yet we have to show up for the experience of life with a positive attitude in order to experience its gifts. — Marianne Williamson

She was a sea: and I had to swim in her. — Clive Barker