Efkamp Quotes

#1. I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know if I have it in me most of the time to care. The music is made first, and the interviews or photos to keep it alive come later as a necessary evil, I suppose.

Jack White

#2. I remember the moment when it hit me. I was walking down Amsterdam Avenue on the Upper West Side, and it felt like I was literally walking out of a jail cell that I had been in. At that moment, I realized I could shave if I wanted. It was up to me and no one else.

Matisyahu

#3. Just to be seen strolling to or from a helicopter on the White House lawn, shouting an evasive answer to Sam Donaldson, must seem to the Reagans not quite satisfactory enough of a 7 PM presence, and this inane scene certainly galls the press.

Thomas B. Griffith

#4. I live by the simplest, perhaps facile command that Jesus ever gave, which is to love God with the whole self and the neighbor as the self, and I find that's entirely consuming. To do those two things leaves me very little time to do much else.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#5. Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.

Henry Chadwick

#6. ...if charity begins at home, empire begins in other men's homes.

Roger Casement

#7. Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#8. The man, his feet tip-tapping softly on the stairs, hated it. He avoided the Index like a gambling addict avoids the tic-tac-tac of the dice table; but, like an addict, he was always, always aware of it: of the pull of the Books, and the darkness, and the silence.

F.D. Lee

#9. I was not to the manor born.

Israel Horovitz

#10. When we think everything is going wrong, it usually isn't. We just can't see the whole picture.

Andrew Matthews

#11. Even if things aren't going the way we want right now, we will always get through it.

Stacey T. Hunt

#12. Let them call me rebel, I feel no concern from it.

Thomas Paine

#13. Folks are obviously reluctant to do things that they don't feel comfortable with, and the conservative nature of the state is such that they can understand property rights.

Jesse Lee Peterson

#14. We're certainly not perfect, and we're not probably even better than anybody else, except that perhaps we are given to certain kinds of contemplation that provide a valuable balance to the knee-jerk reactionary behavior of most of our newspapers and political leaders. Poets are great doubters.

Sam Hamill