Elmer Gantry Quotes

#1. Elmer Gantry never knew who set him thirty dimes, wrapped in a tract about holiness, nor why. But he found the sentiments in the tract useful in his sermon, and the thirty dimes he spent for lovely photographs of burlesque ladies.

Sinclair Lewis

#2. Carter is doing a high-wire act over a cesspool, preaching all the way. Sinclair Lewis, thou shouldst be living in this hour. We have a Warren Harding impersonating Elmer Gantry.

Jimmy Carter

#3. One. Word.
NO.
No is a powerful word. To me, it's the single most powerful word in the English language. Said clearly, strongly and with enough frequency and force, it can alter the course of history.

Shonda Rhimes

#4. Failure is a social taboo.

Anup Kochhar

#5. As an artist, expectations are basically your enemy. If you're truly making something to make it, then you're not thinking about anything else except what you're making.

Kevin Drew

#6. Anger, the Stoics said, was a short madness.

Philip Sidney

#7. Most fatal, most hateful of all things is bullying ... Sensual bullying of course is fairly easily detected. What is more dangerous is ideal bullying. Bullying people into what is ideally good for them.

D.H. Lawrence

#8. In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm.

Jeff Sessions

#9. It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.

Ken Livingstone

#10. Like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker.

Joseph Conrad

#11. Bargaining with God is pointless. He already has a thousand followers that will do what you bargained to do for free.

Shannon L. Alder

#12. Are there any vegetarians among cannibals?

Bill Vaughan

#13. Until the world perceives that "good" cannot be applied to a thing because it is our own, and "bad" because it is another's, there is no prospect of realizing community.

Richard M. Weaver

#14. Food sovereignty is an affirmation of who we are as indigenous peoples and a way, one of the most surefooted ways, to restore our relationship with the world around us.

Winona LaDuke

#15. The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue.

Hilaire Belloc

#16. I started off in musical theater, yeah. It was one of my first jobs; it was in Spring Awakening in London, which was amazing.

Jamie Blackley

#17. I find writing for children much easier. I don't mean it's less demanding - you've got to have a talent for it and you've got to work very hard - but you don't have to pull your guts out and lay them on the line in quite the same way as when you're writing for adults.

Lynne Reid Banks