1611 Bible Quotes

#1. Working-class families in the north of England used to hear the 1611 Bible regularly at church and at home ... for us, the language didn't seem too difficult. I especially liked 'the quick and the dead' - you really get a feel for the difference if you live in a house with mice and a mousetrap.

Jeanette Winterson

#2. To be engulfed: outburst of annihilation which affects the amorous subject in despair or fulfillment. At its best, when it's fulfillment, it's a kind of disappearance at will. An easeful death. Death liberated from dying.

Roland Barthes

#3. I'm happier and a better person when I work out, especially if I work out outdoors.

Amy Jo Martin

#4. An artist's passion shouldn't create passion. An artist's supreme virtue is to be detached and cold.

Young-Ha Kim

#5. Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.

Barber Conable

#6. I'd rather fall in molten lava than fall in love. But I suppose that's just the romantic me.

Jarod Kintz

#7. I believe every church is either supernatural or superficial. I don't believe there's any middle ground.

Leonard Ravenhill

#8. Two things we have no control:The family in which you were born it to and the name you were given at birth.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn't return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different.

John Steinbeck

#10. They stopped and looked at each other. She knew, only when he did it, that she had known he would. He seized her, she felt her lips in his mouth, felt her arms grasping him in violent answer ...

Ayn Rand

#11. The World Cup is not just a great global sporting event, it is also inscribed with much deeper cultural and political importance.

Martin Jacques

#12. Don't be afraid. You are never really alone. Just be yourself. You don't ever have to pretend you are someone else. If you try to do that, then you don't have anything to give the world. Accept and give your gifts with love.

Jay Woodman

#13. It's a beautiful dream, love. But some dreams just cost too much.

Frankie Rose