Rootenberg House Quotes & Sayings

It seems to be the easiest thing in the world these days to make scurrilous accusations against Muslims, and in my case it directly impacts on my relief work and damages my reputation as an artist. The harm done is often difficult to repair. — Cat Stevens

What Gentzen had done was prove the obvious by assuming the doubtful. — Ted Chiang

As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites. — August Wilson

Prayer is picking a fight with the Enemy. It's spiritual warfare. Intercession transports us from the sidelines to the front lines without going anywhere. And that is where the battle is won or lost. Prayer is the difference between us fighting for God and God fighting for us. But we can't just hit our knees. We also have to take a step, take a stand. And when we do, we never know what God will do next. — Mark Batterson

Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day. — Ron Chernow

And now, Anubis, I find you in this den of iniquity, this morass of questionable behavior, this ... this
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Most established novelists are writing books informed by experiences gained in their youth. Middle age is not the best time to be changing smartphones every six months or adopting new technology platforms - because we tend to get slower and less accommodating to change as we age. — Charles Stross

I'll never forget Spencer Tracy. He only worked from nine to one - then from three to five again. — Maximilian Schell

I was very young, maybe five. The opera was very ... I was attracted to opera to the point that I think it's the reason I started to write music for films. I never studied. There are film and music school that teach you how to write music. I never studied that. But the influence of opera, which is a combination of storyline, visuals, staging, plus music ... that was perhaps the best school I could have had. That's what gave me the idea of coming to Hollywood to write music for films. — Lalo Schifrin

They seemed no closer to the tops of the peaks that rose before them. It was only by looking back, to the forest far below, that she knew they'd climbed. — Kristin Cashore

You taste so good. I could kiss you forever. (Adron)
You're not so bad yourself in a lethal, I'll-kill-you-if-you-look-at-me-wrong kind of way. (Livia) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The purpose of life is to be purposeful. — Debasish Mridha

We'll get fired for tardiness, or for stealing merchandise and selling it on eBay, or for having a customer complain about the smell of alcohol on our breath, or for taking five thirty-minute restroom breaks per shift. We talk about the value of hard work but tell ourselves that the reason we're not working is some perceived unfairness: Obama shut down the coal mines, or all the jobs went to the Chinese. These are the lies we tell ourselves to solve the cognitive dissonance - the broken connection between the world we see and the values we preach. We — J.D. Vance