Lapsang Quotes

#1. I waited for him to pick up the thread again - and when he didn't, we sat there peacefully, while I sipped my cooling tea (Lapsang Souchong, smoky and peculiar) and felt the strangeness of my life, and where I was.

Donna Tartt

#2. Once upon a time the English knew who they were.

Anna Pavlova

#3. The author sees Joseph of Genesis as a type of Christ's Pentecostal power. He who was thought dead has been raised in power, and the power is evident in the chariot he sends for his own.

Watchman Nee

#4. I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

Samuel Johnson

#5. I respect knowledge of the psyche. I would be a therapist if I weren't an entertainer.

Jessica Simpson

#6. But that's the beauty of American cable news, darling. It doesn't have to be credible. It just has to be entertaining.

Daniel Silva

#7. I had hoped God would be neutral.

Darrell Royal

#8. Please don't use the word tough. People might get the impression that I don't care. And I do care, very deeply. Resilient, I think.

Margaret Thatcher

#9. The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves to assembling graceful but predominantly unoriginal boxes. Architecture should have the confidence and the kindness to be a little boring.

Alain De Botton

#10. Animism is worth considering (a) because it exists, (b) because it addresses contemporary issues and debates, and (c) because it clarifies, in various ways, the argument that the project of modernity is ill-conceived and dangerously performed.

Graham Harvey