Textual Evidence Quotes & Sayings

I am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life ... — Rainer Maria Rilke

Vegetarianism is a good idea. — Jerry Springer

Money is like an arm or leg- use it or lose it. — Henry Ford

Now faith is being sure of what we believe in and certain of what we do not see. (Heb. 11:1) — Anonymous

I love you, Kell, but I had no interest in matching tattoos. — V.E Schwab

Finally, to hinder the description of illness in literature, there is the poverty of the language. English, which can express the thoughts of Hamlet and the tragedy of Lear, has no words for the shiver and the headache. It has all grown one way. The merest schoolgirl, when she falls in love, has Shakespeare or Keats to speak her mind for her; but let a sufferer try to describe a pain in his head to a doctor and language at once runs dry. There is nothing ready made for him. He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps the people of Babel did in the beginning), so to crush them together that a brand new word in the end drops out. Probably it will be something laughable. — Virginia Woolf

I can be on the Tonight Show, but not with Johnny [Carson]. He uses my name in his monologue all the time. — Paul Reubens

I'm not a TV guy. I'm a restaurant chef and a businessman. — Emeril Lagasse

Sex is just sex. It's everything wrapped around it that's the problem. — Kelly Braffet

selected to 'IGN START'. — Gib Vogel

No cardinal or essential doctrine is altered by any textual variant that has plausibility of going back to the original. The evidence for that has not changed to this day. — Lee Strobel

this interpretation of certain Mesopotamian cultic functionaries has been vigorously criticized as a scholarly construct, overly reliant on nineteenth-century assumptions about "fertility cult" in the ancient Near East. While the vast textual evidence from cuneiform tablets reveals a bewilderingly large variety of female cultic personnel, some of whom are regularly mentioned alongside prostitutes or in contexts that hint of sexuality, they offer no clear-cut example of a "cultic prostitute," and it is likely that this conceptual category simply does not correspond to the more nuanced and complex roles of Mesopotamian women in relation to their goddesses.20 — Jennifer Larson

The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon Earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings. — Edward Gibbon

'The Hobbit' was one of the first biggish books I ever read. I remember vividly the 'riddles in the dark' passage, and it meant a lot to me to finally get to play it after all these years. — Andy Serkis

The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record. — Gavin DeGraw

We must look hopeful. — Jerome Lawrence