Substantiae Quotes & Sayings

To think that only faultless people are worthwhile seems like an incredible exclusion of almost everything of deep value in the human saga. Sometimes I can't believe the narrowness that has been attributed to God in terms of what he would approve and disapprove. — Marilynne Robinson

All melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads, when once the penetrating keynote of nature and spirit is sounded-the earth-beat, sea-beat, heart-beat, which make the tune to which the sun rolls, and the globule of blood and the sap of the trees. — Charles Ives

In writing advertising it must always be kept in mind that the customer often knows more about the goods than the advertising writers because they have had experience in buying them ... — John Wanamaker

In our early period we pretty much survived or perished on our capacity to reach people, and on getting into the pattern of having no money and playing lots of shows. — Peter Garrett

You're talking!"
"I know I am."
"And making sense!"
"Thank you kindly."
"And in sentences!"
"I've noticed." - Stefan and Elena — L.J.Smith

One species on the planet, and one species only, has reached the point of being able to have an impact on the evolutionary fortunes of all other species and upon the functioning of all ecosystems. We also have, in a way that is not true for any other species, a relationship to the planet as a whole and to the future. We live with all life. — Walter Truett Anderson

It sounds crazy, but I promise you it's true; wearing red lipstick really can change the course of a night out — Minnie Mortimer

I held it up, and tried to channel happy dog thoughts toward Cerberus- Alpo commercials, cute little puppies, fire hydrants. — Rick Riordan

My music and my lyrics are essentially emotional postcards. — Sarah McLachlan

We have persistant objects, they're called files. — Ken Thompson

This war has made racists of too many of the and too many of us, and it is the leadership in Khartoum that has stoked this fire, that has brought to the surface, and in some cases created from whole cloth, new hatreds that have bred unprecedented acts of brutality. — Dave Eggers

[Quantity is the fundamental feature of things,] the 'primarium accidens substantiae,' ... prior to the other categories. — Johannes Kepler

Kindness is the only strength there is. — Gregory J. Boyle

I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound. — Pat Metheny