Cynewulf Quotes

#1. I felt a curious thrill, as if something had stirred in me, half wakened from sleep. There was something very remote and strange and beautiful behind those words, if I could grasp it, far beyond ancient English.
(on reading the Cynewulf lines about the star Earendel)

J.R.R. Tolkien

#2. Nobody can be set free from a problem until they're willing to admit they have one.

Joyce Meyer

#3. The reason we need books like these is that the Gospels cannot simply be taken at face value as giving us historically reliable accounts of the things Jesus said and did.

Bart D. Ehrman

#4. The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you're just boring.

Green Day

#5. It's not enough to have good thoughts for the world. You must get out there! It is also really important that each person realise their own worth. If you don't think you're good enough, how can you turn around and help save the world?

Ted Danson

#6. as if he were talking to a police artist: Yes, officer, that's the girl who stole my heart!

Rick Riordan

#7. Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient, healthy, and, all in all, a pleasant place to live. Many Britons find this amusing.

Neil Gaiman

#8. Vietnam should have taught us that mindless anti-Communism is not a cause worth killing or dying for in a world in which Communism is hardly a monolithic force.

Pete Hamill

#9. Repressive societies always seemed to understand the danger of "wrong" ideas.

Octavia E. Butler

#10. The rules you were given were the rules that worked for the person who created them.

Ellen Langer

#11. Ideas and art are the possibility of an answer tomorrow.

Frederick Sommer

#12. But isn't that the way it is with memory? Give it enough time and it will become worn down and covered in a patina of self-serving omissions.

Jason Mott

#13. Reach into the past and remember the reasons you fell in love. Hold on to that, son, and cherish it. Then you must start moving forward again.

J.L. Berg

#14. ROMEO: Fastest way to not hear what someone has to say? Hang up on them.

Did it make me an *sshole? Sure did. Did I give a rat's *ss? H*lls no.

Cambria Hebert

#15. Wherefore we be not only His by His buying, but also by the courteous gift of His Father we be His bliss, we be His meed, we be His worship, we be His crown. (And this was a singular marvel and a full delectable beholding, that we be His crown!)

Julian Of Norwich