Timotheus Gordon Quotes & Sayings

An artist is a prophet and seer, not a paint craftsman or design maker, or reporter or entertainer ... the artist has the superiorly searching perception with which that world outside of man's contamination can be penetrated and the truth drawn out from it. — Morris Graves

It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world. — Rex Stout

Music, that is the science or the sense of proper modulation, is likewise given by God's generosity to mortals having rational souls in order to lead them to higher things. — Augustine Of Hippo

Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny ... and everything in between. But he was one of a kind. — Barack Obama

I just think that gay men have much better taste than any straight man I have met. I have never gotten any grief about having a good time, being unapologetic, and irreverent from a gay man. — Kesha

When I was campaigning, I told the people if nothing happens under my mandate it will still be a positive thing because my mandate will be used as a rupture between the past and the future. — Michel Martelly

The deader your gospel, the flashier your package. Smoke and subwoofers can never do what one glimpse of Christ crucified can do. — J.D. Greear

I worked on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange back when they used to write tickets. And I was just a runner. So a guy would write a ticket and I would run it, and it was endless. That was a hard job. And I dug tungsten ... for a coal company in Wyoming one summer, and that was pretty miserable. — John C. McGinley

If I'm going to do something, I do it spectacularly or I don't do it at all. — Al-Waleed Bin Talal

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or at the barricades, but rather evolves out of attitude. If it results from anything, it must be levity. — Tom Robbins

Words matter, in fact. They're not pointless, as you've suggested. If they were pointless, then they couldn't start revolutions and they wouldn't change history. If they were just words, we wouldn't write songs or listen to them. We wouldn't beg to be read to as kids. If they were just words, then stories wouldn't have been around since before we could write. We wouldn't have learned to write. If they were just words, people wouldn't fall in love because of them, feel bad because of them, ache because of them, and stop aching because of them." (p. 210) (Henry Jones) — Cath Crowley

Christian witness is concrete: words without actions are empty. — Pope Francis

Now you're just being cruel.'
'I like pushing your buttons.'
'You'd enjoy it more if you undid them first. — Michelle Hodkin

the creative power of the judicial system in shaping the law cannot be overlooked entirely. This factor needs to be consciously accepted as one of the elements in shaping the legal system and the laws, however, without least opposing the Supremacy of the Sovereign statutes promulgated in the land.The chasm in the contemporaneous legal scheme and the legislation in Oman harbingers for such a practice to secure the ends of justice, probability of decisions to be given primacy rather than approximation to a model format. — Henrietta Newton Martin