Messer Quotes

#1. You take that leap of faith. You have to be willing to follow, blindly, wherever it takes you. If you know where you're going beforehand, you're not going to end up with anything worth knowing.

Sam Messer

#2. The credulous ... advance the authority of hearsay in place of reasons for possible success or facts that can be demonstrated.

Vannoccio Biringuccio

#3. In a very small way, painting addresses the 'Big Questions' to which we'll never find the answers. You do what you have to do even if it seems hopeless.

Sam Messer

#4. Since coming to Congress, I have been advocating for increased resources for research in the physical sciences and for the Department of Energy Office of Science in particular.

Judy Biggert

#5. People who believe in painting ... realize there is something greater than just coming up with an idea, and executing it.

Sam Messer

#6. Buddha once said, "All we are is the result of what we thought.

Blake Messer

#7. I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.

Salma Hayek

#8. How do you create something unknown?

Sam Messer

#9. We serve a gracious Master who knows how to overrule even our mistakes to his glory and our own advantage.

John Newton

#10. Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not happen.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#11. Dying wasn't the joke, it was the punchline, the final guffaw, the crack-up, when your listeners' eyes should be streaming and your woman pees in her pants with laughing. You had to live with sufficient panache that the punchline worked.

Jane Messer