Missal Quotes

#1. Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn.

Charles De Lint

#2. One thing that's great about firefighters: If they don't have the equipment they desperately need, they don't have the help, they don't care. They'll do it on their own.

Denis Leary

#3. Anchovies pair really well with fruit like a nectarines or clementine. The fruit complements the sweetness and saltiness of the anchovy.

Jose Andres

#4. The word of a cat is not to be relied upon.

Robin Hobb

#5. While rising delinquencies and foreclosures will continue to weigh heavily on the housing market this year, it will not cripple the U.S.

Ben Bernanke

#6. This outer world is but the pictured scroll Of worlds within the soul; A colored chart, a blazoned missal-book, Whereon who rightly look May spell the splendors with their mortal eyes, And steer to Paradise.

Alfred Noyes

#7. Each year in early spring, during the season of Lent, which begins on Ash Wednesday and concludes on Easter, a plenitude of books, magazine articles, and television shows about Jesus appear.

Jay Parini

#8. Even the longest journey is a circle, and history will always cycle back to the place where it began. From the missal: Remember you are dust and unto dust you shall return.

Rick Yancey

#9. Don't make the mistake of confusing the word of God with the missal industry that lives off it.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#10. Things started to fall apart at home when my brother, Jaja, did not go to communion and Papa flung his heavy missal across the room and broke the figurines on the etagere.(Opening page, 3)

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#11. A wise old owl once told me,
One time when he was out of his tree,
That nothing in this world is for free.
I agree!

P.D. Cain

#12. Seth told us good night and left.
I watched him go wistfully. Anyone else here feel like swooning?

Richelle Mead

#13. A man can say all kinds of things, but where he sets his spheres, that's where his heart is.

Brandon Sanderson

#14. The kind of stuff I usually read is a bit more on the literary side, like books that I think are influential in the sense that they're doing pulpy subject matter in a refined way. Like 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy; I loved that book.

Isaac Marion

#15. She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#16. What's nice about investing is you don't have to swing at every pitch.

Warren Buffett

#17. Healing is the rediscovery of who we are and who we have always been.

Joan Z. Borysenko

#18. Be thoughtful but never forget to be kind.

Debasish Mridha

#19. Translation is so important. The new American translations of the Bible sound like a Judith Krantz novel.

Rabih Alameddine