Murano Glass Quotes

#1. Song brings of itself a cheerfulness that wakes the heart of joy.

Euripides

#2. Others can challenge and motivate us, but we must reach down deep into our souls and call forth our God-given intelligence and capabilities. We cannot do this when we depend on the efforts of someone else.

James E. Faust

#3. It's like a prize fighter. He knows he has a fight coming up, so he gets in the gym and trains. So when I have a show coming up, I practice yodeling.

Slim Whitman

#4. You don't need to think deeply before reaching out to the excuses to give. Just lose interest in it and you gain excuses at no cost!

Israelmore Ayivor

#5. Don't just see what others tell you to see

Debby Feo

#6. Anyone who knew the recipe of the alchemists could make gold, but only the artisans of Murano could make glass so fine, one could nearly touch one's fingers together on either side; cristallo without an imperfection or blemish, clear as the sky, with a sparkle to rival that of diamonds.

Ruth Nestvold

#7. I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing.

Mark Twain

#8. Reality was getting too dense.

Susanna Kaysen

#9. I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.

Gale Sayers

#10. People want the truth but they only want the truth so they can talk bad about you on the blog or on television. They want you to tell them the truth and it screws everybody.

Billy Bob Thornton

#11. God dispenses gifts, not wages. None of us gets paid according to merit, for none of us comes close to satisfying God's requirements for a perfect life. If paid on the basis of fairness, we would all end up in hell.

Philip Yancey

#12. Life's a maze, you twist and you turn through it
The driest of droughts, maneuvered and I earned through it

Clipse

#13. The most striking fault in work by young or beginning novelists, submitted for criticism, is irrelevance
due either to infatuation or indecision. To direct such an author's attention to the imperative of relevance is certainly the most useful
and possibly the only
help that can be given.

Elizabeth Bowen

#14. I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to hit a golf ball.

Dennis Quaid