Sermonising Quotes & Sayings

Music is truly love itself, the purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colors in every variety of shading and nuance. — Carl Maria Von Weber

Maybe they were. I don't know. Maybe they
weren't. But they felt like the real thing, and the real thing wanted to make money off me. — James Patterson

I think maybe 50 years ago people and businesses felt like they had to choose between maximizing profits and making customers happy or making employees happy, and I think we're actually living in a special time where everyone's hyperconnected, whether through Twitter or blogs and so on. Information travels so quickly that it's actually possible to have it all, to make customers happy through customer service, to make employees happy through strong company cultures, and have that actually drive growth and profits. — Tony Hsieh

That that don't kill me, can only make me stronger. — Kanye West

It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review. That's not film criticism. — Richard Linklater

The stories he told became boring to me through repetition, but I understand now that he was just trying to fix that place with the compass of his memories. Throughout — Jeff VanderMeer

There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic. — Spike Lee

The sermon is now the true poppy of literature. — David Swing

Since God has appointed one remedy for all the evils in the world and that is a contented spirit. — Jeremy Taylor

You know, there have been a lot of casualties in rock-n-roll. — Warren Cuccurullo

I try to get the basic facts, not the details. The details can be interesting, but they can also distract me into attachment. The worst thing in the world would be to pretend to know the people whose lives I step through. They cannot be homes to me. They must be hotel rooms. — David Levithan

I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that. — Kara Walker

I bid farewell to my readers in the hope that they have formed their own opinion as to the meaning of the word "combination". — Raymond Keene

What kind of miracle ripped out your heart, and left you breathing? — A.B. Shepherd