Simonel Quotes & Sayings

A friend and I prepared a video clip once for a worship service. Our goal was to capture people's responses to the word Christian, so we took a video camera and hit the streets, from the trendy arts district to the suburbs. We asked people to say the first word that came to mind in response to each word we said: "snow," "eagles" (it's Philly), "teenagers," and finally "Christian." When people heard the word Christian, they stopped in their tracks. I will never forget their responses: "fake," "hypocrites," "church," "boring." One guy even said, "used-to-be-one" (sort of one word). I will also never forget what they didn't say. Not one of the people we asked that day said "love." No one said "grace." No one said "community. — Shane Claiborne

The forecast is
we kiss goodbye and never hello
all kisses are then parting kisses — Saul Williams

Power grows out of Organized Knowledge, but mind you, it grows out of it, through Application and Use. — Napoleon Hill

A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere. — W. H. Auden

Tom. Tom, look at me. Has Nora agreed to marry you?"
"No, but she will because she has to. — Robyn Carr

Eve Ensler is a hero of mine. She's been working for the rights of women for a long time. — Marcia Wallace

Some stuff is gonna find a way to happen; once it's got started, you can't stop it no matter what you do. — Tana French

And then the strangest thought of all clattered drunkenly from the back of my brain to the front and blinded me: If I kill Amy, who will I be? — Gillian Flynn

If you thought financial crises came and went, just count on them - another economic collapse, it's almost going to be like not news any more. But for startups this is great, because it's a perpetual driver of disruption. — Steve Jurvetson

Every person you meet - and everything you do in life - is an opportunity to learn something. — Tom Clancy

I can tell when I've met a bad journalist when they say, "I've met Madonna," or "I know Marilyn Manson." Because I haven't met anyone I've ever interviewed. I've sat down in the position of an interviewer, and they've sat down in the position of an artist trying to promote a product. We have no relationship. I'm able to ask them questions I'd never be allowed to ask them if we were casual friends. It's a completely constructed kind of situation. — Chuck Klosterman

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. — Alexander Pope