Boessen Underground Quotes

#1. Young people and adults need equitable relationships-they do not need equal ones.

Adam Fletcher

#2. There is nothing terribly difficult in the Bible - at least in a technical way. The Bible is written in street language, common language. Most of it was oral and spoken to illiterate people. They were the first ones to receive it. So when we make everything academic, we lose something.

Eugene H. Peterson

#3. Theology created the fiction of Satan which represents the revolt if an infinite being against the existence of an absolute infinity, against God.

Mikhail Bakunin

#4. Intimacy is at the heart of competence. It has to do with understanding, with believing, and with practice. It has to do with the relationship to one's work.

Max De Pree

#5. In regards to The Haunting, people compared it to the old movie, which is unfair. We didn't have the rights to the movie. I couldn't duplicate a single thing because that would have been legal infringement.

Jan De Bont

#6. I feel good about the decisions that I made and I?m happy. You know, I?m really happy.

Tom Cruise

#7. I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie.

John Lydon

#8. In the land of genius, the sun always shines; in the land of clever, there are many clouds!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. The bohar snapper - they have these huge canines. I got bit by one. One took a chunk out of my ear - they are much scarier than the sharks.

Brian Skerry

#10. You don't know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.

Gustave Flaubert

#11. If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

Charles Darwin

#12. If you can get an audience to identify themselves with a character, they will subconsciously feel that their own lives are in danger. People tend to pay attention in situations like that. I think fear is the easiest, and most visceral, emotion to activate in an audience.

David Hayter

#13. Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth; you have to cut yourself to theirs.

Jeanine Basinger

#14. All government, of course, is against liberty.

H.L. Mencken

#15. If you do the best you can, no matter how bad the situation, you probably are going to come out okay.

Helen Gurley Brown