Summer Sonic Background Quotes & Sayings

The first thing that strikes you about Timothy Murphys verse is the palpable texture of his line - that sound of sense practised by that other American poet-farmer, Robert Frost. And just as Murphys ear is trained on the rhythms of local speech and classical epigram, his eye holds fast on the image. This is an undeluded vision, sometimes bleak, often funny, and never less than painstakingly crafted. — Michael Donaghy

I guess I can call myself a pragmatist with a conservative perspective. It would be hard for me to explain this, but I always take realities of today, lessons from the distant and recent past into consideration. — Vladimir Putin

God is no respector of persons, but He does play favorites. — Tommy Tenney

When I say that you are gods and goddesses I mean that your possibility is infinite, your potentiality is infinite. — Rajneesh

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

A drop in the ocean has no fear of a hurricane. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I don't find anyone more noble than Jesus. — Donald Miller

On the road, he was alive, vibrant, moving. It didn't afford the freedom of a jet plane flying through a clear sky, but a highway offered something almost as profound, an entry into the secret regions of the earth where towns with foreign, unrecallable names were violated once, then forgotten for all time. — Pat Conroy

There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night. — John Lithgow

Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable. — Ben Kingsley

We can not suppose that all the breeds were suddenly produced as perfect and as useful as we now see them; indeed, in many cases, we know that this has not been their history. The key is man's power of accumulative selection: nature gives successive variations; man adds them up in certain directions useful to him. In this sense he may be said to have made for himself useful breeds. — Charles Darwin

The excellence of the soul is understanding; for the man who understands is conscious, devoted, and already godlike. — Hermes Trismegistus