Studiosi Cantandi Quotes & Sayings

A text cannot mean what it could never have meant for its original readers/hearers. — Gordon D. Fee

Everybody knows the Lord loveth a cheerful giver. — George Washington Cable

Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a sense of life. — Walter Darby Bannard

I never wanted to churn it out. Comedians tend to work all the time. They never put it down like musicians who might make an album then take three or four years off to recharge their batteries. Comedians tend to work straight through and they get stale because of that. Even when I didn't have a lot of money I never ever did it unless I had something new to say. — Chris Rock

The greatest single moment Ive ever known in Detroit was Jim Northrups triple in the seventh game of the World Series in St. Louis. It was a stunning moment because not only were the Tigers winning a world championship that meant so much to an entire city, they were beating the best pitcher I ever saw-Bob Gibson. — Ernie Harwell

Traditional arguments for the existence of God and contemporary attempts to use fine-tuning and cosmology to back up the case for his existence always strike me as kinds of games, since hardly anyone believes on the basis of these arguments at all. — Julian Baggini

Helen, in a white coat and stethoscope, effortlessly achieving the sort of discipline for which lesser women would require black leather and a hunting crop, indicated we should form a line. Being St Mary's, we formed several clumps and a rhomboid. — Jodi Taylor

Keep forgetting that y'all are freakishly informed about this stuff. — Brandon Sanderson

- What are you writing? I looked up at her, somewhat surprised. I had absolutely no idea. — Patti Smith

Sometimes people say that kids with autism aren't capable of love. That's ridiculous. My son loves deeply. He just doesn't communicate well. — Claire Scovell LaZebnik

It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran