Tom Berlin Quotes & Sayings

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich. — Gertrude Stein

Aren't our lives a collision of the comic and the uncertain and the terrifying and the mundane? — Adam Johnson

From a theological point of view, Easter is the center of the Church year; but Christmas is the most profoundly human feast of faith, because it allows us to feel most deeply the humanity of God. The crib has a unique power to show us what it means to say that God wished to be "Immanuel" - a "God with us", a God whom we may address in intimate language, because he encounters us as a child. — Pope Benedict XVI

Everything is possible through complete devotion to the Lord. — Radhe Maa

Bury us, and mark our names above. Let us be free. — Madeline Miller

Usually the German translators do something terrible, especially with Tom Wolfe, which is that they make it local. So if the characters are from Harlem, the translators put all this Berlin slang into their mouths, and that's just terrible. You cringe when you read that. But there really is no good solution to the problem, except learning English. — Daniel Kehlmann

I don't think this kind of thing [satire] has an impact on the unconverted, frankly. It's not even preaching to the converted; it's titillating the converted. I think the people who say we need satire often mean, 'We need satire of them, not of us.' I'm fond of quoting Peter Cook, who talked about the satirical Berlin cabarets of the '30s, which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the Second World War. — Tom Lehrer

I've found that the less stuff I own, the less my stuff owns me. — Nathan W. Morris

I carefully returned the files to my mother's drawer and left the house with one objective: find Christina Georgia.
July 14th was today. — Embee

Thoughts are energy. Thoughts move energy into form. Energy is the building block of all things. Law of cause and effect. Law of attraction. Physical objects are literally dense thought forms, energy clustered in the form expressed by the thought. — David Cameron Gikandi

My dad is the most humble man on the planet. — Bryce Dallas Howard

When someone entrusts their heart to you they are giving you a piece of their soul. You cannot treat the soul casually. You must protect, nurture and handle it with care. — Iyanla Vanzant

I noticed with older songs that I perform that I'm coming from a different place with them now ... it mutates the vibe and even the meaning of the same words when you have a different spirit, if the person singing is different. I like that, to be able to sing an emotionally wrought song from a more centered place, or to sing an eager, youthful song from a more experienced place. It kind of colors the songs differently, and it keeps them fresh. — Ani DiFranco