Il Giornale Quotes

#1. For Tozer, entertainment was simply the Church synchronizing with the world and succumbing to it. It was utter nonsense to him that the Church wanted to bring itself "up to speed" with the world around it. A worldly church was, in Tozer's thinking, an oxymoron and completely anathema.

A.W. Tozer

#2. A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar.

Confucius

#3. The disaster of being old was in not feeling safe to venture anywhere, of seeing freedom put out of reach.

Elizabeth Taylor

#4. If there's a British film in the marketplace that is successful on a worldwide basis - whether it's 'A Room with a View,' 'Four Weddings' or 'The Full Monty' - money follows, and everyone tries to emulate that success.

Eric Fellner

#5. The nationalist regrets the change; an ill-founded belief in the merits of purity blinds him to the virtues of the foreign and the hybrid.

C.V. Wedgwood

#6. I have never made a decision based on race and never will.

Cuba Gooding Jr.

#7. A school prayer amendment would confer upon public school boards a power the First Amendment now denies to Congress and the states, that is, the power to establish religion.

Sam Ervin

#8. The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

Mark Twain

#9. [Addressed to Berlusconi who wanted to impose himself on the editorial style of "Il Giornale"] In the art of entrepeneurship, you are certainly a genius, and I an asshole. But in the art of argument the genius is me, and you the asshole.

Indro Montanelli

#10. Every time somebody opens their mouth they have an opportunity to do one of two things - connect or divide.

Joss Whedon

#11. Doomed to practice it day after day, even to the extent of dipping his nib in orange juice to make the words invisible, he has fallen in love with secrecy.

Paul West

#12. Many people don't realize until they are on their deathbed and everything external falls away that no thing ever had anything to do with who they are.

Eckhart Tolle

#13. She is the only island for you in your life. From her there is no turning back for you. Only around her does the sea have color.

Victor Shklovsky

#14. Also, I was coming up on my five year anniversary of owning the house, and if there's anything I've learned in five years, it's this: if a piece of your house falls off and you don't know what to do with it, throwing it in the trash and forgetting about it is a perfectly viable option.

Meghan Daum

#15. It seems you want me at your mercy, Princess. The question is why?
No, the question is, do I?

Meg Hennessy

#16. He dreamt an old dream, of three knights in white cloaks, and a tower long fallen, and Lyanna in her bed of blood.

George R R Martin