Roose Quotes & Sayings

Twisting through the thorn-thick underbrush, scratched and exhausted, one turns suddenly to find an unexpected waterfall, not half a mile from the nearest road, a spot so hard to reach that no one comes a hiding place, a shrine for dragonflies and nesting jays, a sign that there is still one piece of property that won't be owned. — Dana Gioia

I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway. — Wayne Coyne

I'm just one of many moms who will say an extra prayer each night for our sons and daughters going into harm's way. — Sarah Palin

Christian pop culture can be worthwhile if done well, but bad Christian pop culture isn't redeemed merely by the fact that it's Christian. — Kevin Roose

Seen at Liberty University: I hope the Rapture happens before my student loans are due. — Kevin Roose

False conversions are a wart on the face of Christian evangelism. — Kevin Roose

When it comes down to it, no matter how pious or like-minded he might be, a Christian jerk is still a jerk. — Kevin Roose

Already liberals are trying to rewrite the history of the Cold War to remove Reagan from its core, to make him a doddering B-movie actor who happened to be standing there when the Soviet Union imploded. They have the media, the universities, the textbooks. We have ourselves. We are the witnesses. — Ann Coulter

If prayers emitted light, you'd see ours (Liberty students') from space. — Kevin Roose

Be certain," Catelyn told her son, "or go home and take up that wooden sword again. You cannot afford to seem indecisive in front of men like Roose Bolton and Rickard Karstark. Make no mistake, Robb-these are your bannermen, not your friends. You named yourself battle commander. Command. — George R R Martin

In the evangelical world, prying can be an indicator of compassion. — Kevin Roose

Though Roose had been in battles, he bore no scars. Though well past forty, he was as yet unwrinkled, with scarce a line to tell of the passage of time. — George R R Martin

I don't think college is something you should tough out. — Kevin Roose

Morality is a easy horse to ride when all the horses are just black and white. — Jury Nel

I want to yell so loud that Baby Girl can hear me that dirty ain't a color, disease ain't the Negro side a town. I want to stop that moment from coming - and it come in ever white child's life - when they start to think that colored folks ain't as good as whites ... I pray that wasn't her moment, Pray I still got time. — Kathryn Stockett

When the author admits to Christians that he was not a Christian himself, he says their dialogue became distant and rehearsed, like a pitch for Ginsu knives. — Kevin Roose

Private Joker is silly and he's ignorant but he's got guts and guts is enough. — Stanley Kubrick

Human life [is] ... a process of filling in time until the arrival of death, or Santa Claus, with very little choice, if any, of what kind of business one is going to transact during the long wait. — Eric Berne

At most schools, the social, intellectual, and spiritual components are confined to separate experiential spheres. We party, we learn, and we contemplate the metaphysical, but we rarely do all three simultaneously and en masse. Maybe most college students aren't looking for spiritual euphoria from their schools, but I can't say I blame the ones who are. — Kevin Roose

I've spilled all my secrets. How do you make people do it?" "I don't. People like to talk about what's hurting them. It takes the edge off the pain sometimes. — Ross Macdonald

As frustrating as the battle for purity must be, I suppose it's easier if you've got company. — Kevin Roose

My dog watches me on TV. So, if I may take this opportunity, "No! No! No!" — Garry Shandling

Ironically, the expanded means for connecting at one's disposal become limited to seductively entertaining, instantly gratifying, often desperate mimicry of heartfelt contact. — Steven Buser

If she pops out sons the way she pops in tarts, the Dreadfort will soon be overrun with Boltons. — George R R Martin

There was an agelessness about him, a stillness; on Roose Bolton's face, rage and joy looked much the same. — George R R Martin

The author's mentor advises the NAKED method of breaking the ice at the first meeting: Name, Address, Kin, Experience, and Dreams. — Kevin Roose

No community adheres completely to its stereotypes. — Kevin Roose

I realized how naive I was. My aunt Tina was right: this stuff does exist, and it does hurt people, and although there are lots of people at Liberty who condemn violence against gays
including Dr. Falwell himself
the number of students who want to give them the Goliath treatment isn't zero. In fact, the number who live in my room isn't zero. — Kevin Roose

Power tastes best when sweetened by courtesy.
-Roose Bolton — George Martin

The maester had taught him all the banners: the mailed fist of the Glovers, silver on scarlet; Lady Mormont's black bear; the hideous flayed man that went before Roose Bolton of the Dreadfort; a bull moose for the Hornwoods; a battle-axe for the Cerwyns; three sentinel trees for the Tallharts; and the fearsome sigil of House Umber, a roaring giant in shattered chains. — George R R Martin

Without your downs, without your hardships, I don't think you appreciate the ups as much, — Michelle Wie

If an image is powerful enough, if it resists us, if, by its obscure coherence, part of it escapes our understanding, then it means that something has been won from reality. — Luc Delahaye

Without cynicism and cursing, what will I say to people? — Kevin Roose

Fellowship" is a Christianspeak for "flirt with unsuccessfully". — Kevin Roose

A Christian jerk is still a jerk. — Kevin Roose