Banished Threads Quotes

#1. To philosophize means to make vivid.

Novalis

#2. I was surprised, but I always say nothing surprises me in football.

Les Ferdinand

#3. Kelly Link's prose is conveyed in details so startling and fine that you work up a sweat just waiting for the next sentence to land. This is why we read, crave, need, can't live without short stories.

Tea Obreht

#4. I retired from everything except work.

Lee Friedlander

#5. Everything is impermanent, except the love of God.

Neem Karoli Baba

#6. It's improbable for me to become lost, because I am already self-realized. A blank scene is a portrait of a glass kingdom to me. In order to become lost, one must not be able to realize their own identity, ego, and self.

Lionel Suggs

#7. If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

Ariel Pink

#8. Chris Matthews can't start any sentence without 'Let me ask you this ... ' And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who's stopping you? Just say it!

Dick Cavett

#9. Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.

David Lloyd-Jones

#10. Anthropologically informed works, from Sir James Frazer's Golden Bough to Pascal Boyer's Religion Explained or Scott Atran's In Gods We Trust, fascinatingly document the bizarre phenomenology of superstition and ritual. Read such books and marvel at the richness of human gullibility. But that is not

Richard Dawkins

#11. The world, in truth, is a wedding.

Erving Goffman

#12. I believe love is what makes the world go round. No matter how old or young, love is why we are here. It is the very essence of one's being ...

Olivia Newton-John

#13. Those who have a lot of money in Greece invest in housing abroad. It's all immoral. The Greek crisis is structural, but also political.

Evangelos Venizelos