Sharpness Stinging Quotes & Sayings

You are a Seminole alligator wrestler. Half naked, with your two bare hands, you hold and fight a sentence's head while its tail tries to knock you over. — Annie Dillard

To occupy an inch of dusty shelf-to have the title of their works read now and then in a future age by some drowsy churchman or casual straggler, and in another age to be lost, even to remembrance. Such is the amount of boasted immortality. — Washington Irving

No. He was not here to retrieve his wife. For his wife was not a thing to be retrieved. — Renee Ahdieh

We must grow out of religion. It is either bugaboo, formalism, or hysteria. Besides, what proof is there that "the churches" know more about "God" than the Cockney sentry on duty outside the camp? We have only their say-so. — Richard Aldington

I don't preach a social gospel; I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person. — Desmond Tutu

Pip wondered what the secret was of being different in a way that attracted people, as opposed to her own way. — Jonathan Franzen

We don't need unelected federal agency bureaucrats in Washington telling our states what they can and can't do with respect to protecting their limited taxpayer dollars in private enterprises. — Marsha Blackburn

For no falsehood can endure
Touch of celestial temper. — John Milton

I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking. — Alex Winter