Alexandrians Quotes

#1. The Alexandrian School In opposition to the previously named Church Fathers, the Alexandrians openly embraced Greek philosophy, thought of it as being of divine origin, and brought its allegorizing technique into their exegesis.

Anonymous

#2. My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut.

Dick Dale

#3. Never lie about my age because I want credit for every damned year.

Lionel Shriver

#4. Africa is never the same to anyone who leaves it and returns again. It is not a land of change, but it is a land of moods and its moods are numberless.

Beryl Markham

#5. A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

#6. Nothing can compare to the feeling evoked by turning the page in a great book.

Aneta Cruz

#7. There aren't too many people out there who can start one of my books and not finish it. I don't think too many writers can say that.

Joy Fielding

#8. I believe in the admission of women to the full rights of citizenship and share in government, on the express grounds that few women keep house so badly or with such wastefulness as chancellors of the exchequer keep the state.

Theodore Parker

#9. Yes, she was a scandal.
Her brother simply didn't know it.
"I fell in the Serpentine today."
"Yes, well, that doesn't usually happen to women in London. But it's not so much of a scandal as it is a challenge.

Sarah MacLean

#10. The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#11. Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.

Gloria Swanson

#12. Love heals scars love left

Henry Rollins

#13. The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.

Robert Benchley

#14. Never throw love away, never neglect it. Never assume you'll find better love somewhere else. Take it wherever you're lucky enough to find it, and always try to return it in kind. Don't take so much for granted.

Patricia Gaffney