Herndon Center Quotes

#1. Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

Samuel Johnson

#2. All is clouded by desire: as fire by smoke, as a mirror by dust ...Through these it blinds the soul.

Christopher J. Koch

#3. Scientists are not these guys in lab coats deep in the inner bowels of universities and hospitals with their Bunsen burners. They're the people molding the culture that we live in, the future of our culture, and the technology we rely on every day.

Johnny Galecki

#4. It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs.

Tennessee Williams

#5. The deadliest bullshit is odorless, and transparent.

William Gibson

#6. I have so much respect for directors. It's a tremendous amount of pressure; you have to keep steadfast and keep what you know is right.

Robert De Niro

#7. The problem is, if you really want the Truth, then you have to have God along with it.

Frank E. Peretti

#8. I like to do chill things on dates. I think it would be fun to go to the zoo. I know it's really weird and random, but I love animals. It'd be like a day of doing silly things, while enjoying nature.

Ashlee Simpson

#9. The main reason why Western civilization lacks Spirituality, or an awareness of our interconnectedness with one another and the universe, according to Gandhi, is that it has given priority to economic and technological development over human and community development.

Grace Lee Boggs

#10. God always answers prayer, sometimes with a yes, sometimes with a no and sometimes with a 'You've got to be kidding!'

Jimmy Carter

#11. Whatever you may believe about it, the birth of Jesus was so important that it split history into two parts. Everything that has ever happened on this planet falls into a category of before Christ or after Christ.

Philip Yancey

#12. I am satisfied that a happy marriage is not so much a matter of romance as it is an anxious concern for the comfort and well-being of one's companion.
-Gordon B. Hinckley

Gordon B. Hinckley

#13. I loved to watch cartoons and even made little stop-motion films in the backyard. At the time, I never really thought that it was something you could do for a living; it never actually hit me that people do that sort of thing or I would be capable of it.

Eric Darnell

#14. It is a quintessential example of the whirling kinetics that drive a Keaton film, in which not just the medium but the human body- the permutations of the sinews, the shock of the limbs -seems infinitely elastic, an unruly instument to be wilded with a cheeky kind of grace.

Edward McPherson