Excusable Sermon Quotes

#1. I wanted to write in film or something like that. I thought acting was an embarrassing thing to say you wanted to do, especially when you're young. It seemed really uncool.

Max Minghella

#2. Poetry is like air. It's one of the necessary things. Everyone benefits from poetry. And as you know, poetry is international. There are only two things that are truly international, poetry and wine.

Nikki Giovanni

#3. He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.

Robert Redford

#4. It is cheaper to pay mathematicians and computer scientists to design algorithms that will eliminate webspamming, rather than to pay lawyers to do lawsuits.

Jennifer Tour Chayes

#5. When I was a kid, and I was watching TV, I just loved it so much that I wanted to crawl into that TV.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

#6. The Jewish culture - people that are Jewish have a certain cultural habit that they've formed and one of those habits is an appreciation of theater and music - these are cultural things one does associate with values that are promulgated by Jewish families. I think that's a good thing.

Woody Allen

#7. The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.

Dee Hock

#8. My first boyfriend that I ever had, actually sang a song that he wrote for me on-stage to ask me out. That was pretty romantic.

Aubrey Plaza

#9. The greatest action is the grace to define sacred-self.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. We're not one thing, as human beings, so any character that is written uni-dimensional, that's just a shallow character with shallow writing and shallow acting.

Kari Matchett

#11. My father, Simon Hoggart, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in June 2010. By this point, it had spread to his spleen and metastasised in his lungs and so was pronounced terminal.

Amy Hoggart

#12. Pythagoras
Did stagger us
And our reason encumber
With irrational number

Steven Cushing