Theophilos 3 Quotes & Sayings

The roaches were in high spirits. There were half a dozen of them, caught in the teeth of love. They capered across the liquor bottles, perched atop pour spouts like wooden ladies on the prows of sailing ships. They lifted their wings and delicately fluttered. They swung their antennae with a ripe sexual urgency, tracing love sonnets in the air. — Nathan Ballingrud

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid. — Joan Of Arc

Theophilos, the light of reason that we both reverence is not a god. Neither does the highest development of the human mind confer divinity upon us. We may quote Aristotle one moment and in the next find ourselves betraying our wives and children - for the sake of passion, in the name of love - and not know how we arrived at that lamentable state. Reason is a gift of God but of itself cannot ennoble a man. — Michael D. O'Brien

My mother was the most amazing person. She taught me to be kind to other women. She believed in family. She was with my father from the first day they met. All that I am, she taught me. — Sidney Poitier

There was a sound you could smell / like you were inhaling tomorrow. — Cameron Conaway

The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat. — Isaac Newton

The French dine to gratify, we to appease appetite," observed John Sanderson. "We demolish dinner, they eat it." The general misconception back home was that French food was highly seasoned, but not at all, wrote James Fenimore Cooper. The genius in French cookery was "in blending flavors and in arranging compounds in such a manner as to produce ... the lightest and most agreeable food." The charm of a French dinner, like so much in French life, was the "effect. — David McCullough

Can't you just see all those enlightened monkey men sitting around a roaring woodfire around their Buddha saying nothing and knowing everything? — Jack Kerouac

I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years, and I wanted to stop while I'm still at the top. — Hermann Maier

It was what her mother had always been. A place to put down her heart. A resting stop to recover her breath. A set of stars and maps. — Katherine Rundell

...the government in Beijing continues to define itself as Marxist-Leninist, though 'Market-Leninist' would be rather more apt. — Francis Wheen

Trashy Women should probably exclusively date Garbage Men — Josh Stern

The most important thing is not life, but the good life. — Plato