Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. ~John Calvin
#quotes #john-calvin #christianity #jesus

I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work. ~Hanneli Mustaparta
#quotes #hanneli-mustaparta #inspiration #work #music

I remember being fascinated by ants and wasps and other bugs when I was a kid. I'd set out a Coke can and stand back 20 feet and use my telescope to watch wasps land on it. ~Paul McEuen
#quotes #paul-mceuen #childhood

James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond. ~Ken Follett
#quotes #ken-follett #james-bond #eating

I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me. ~Grandma Moses
#quotes #grandma-moses #helping

"You're children. Don't you want a home, a family?" "With, like, vitamin-fortified cereal and educational television? ~James Patterson
#quotes #james-patterson #children #family #tv

A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
#proverbs #yiddish-proverbs

Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result of being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings. ~Dave Barry
#quotes #dave-barry #love #marriage

Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life. ~Kenneth Scott Latourette
#quotes #kenneth-scott-latourette #christianity #society

The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong. ~Marlene Dietrich
#quotes #marlene-dietrich #weakness #strength

I love steakhouses. When I'm in Chicago, I know there is a Gibsons that's open late. 13 Coins at Sea-Tac Airport in Washington is a gourmet restaurant I love. ~Triple H
#quotes #triple-h eating #chicago #gibsons #washington #13-coins

Clothes are my drug. I love Camden market, I have so many vintage pieces from there it is unbelievable. Clothes are really important to me, they give me that feeling of happiness. I love being a bit free with it all and not giving myself rules. ~Kaya Scodelario
#quotes #kaya-scodelario #happiness #clothing

Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. ~Townsend Harris
#quotes #townsend-harris #nation

Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart. ~Carol Plum-Ucci
#quotes #carol-plum-ucci #happiness

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
#proverbs #grandparents

When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first. ~Tom Hiddleston
#quotes #tom-hiddleston #bullying

Goal setting will never stop. I will continue to work hard and practice hard and see where things go. ~Zach Johnson
#quotes #zach-johnson #goals #work

Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb
#proverbs #irish-proverbs #hope

As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are. ~Quentin Tarantino
#quotes #quentin-tarantino #writing #character

Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do. ~Laurel Clark
#quotes #laurel-clark #parents #influence #thankfulness

I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that's impossible. ~Paul Michael Glaser
#quotes #paul-michael-glaser #70s #past #movies

I'm at the age where I want two girls. In case I fall asleep they will have someone to talk to. ~Rodney Dangerfield
#quotes #rodney-dangerfield #children #humor

I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment. ~Maria Monk
#quotes #maria-monk #christianity #power

A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder. ~John D. Rockefeller
#quotes #john-d-rockefeller #friendship #business

The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants. ~Welsh Proverb
#proverbs #welsh-proverbs #justice