Publican Quotes

#1. I am a big David Bowie fan.

Kristen Wiig

#2. At dawn, after a summary court martial, Arcadio was shot against the wall of the cemetery. In the last two hours of his life he did not manage to understand why the fear that had tormented him since childhood had disappeared.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#3. Only when you are finally able, with the publican, to admit that you are dead will you be able to stop balking at grace.

Robert Farrar Capon

#4. I had a really weird moment when I was doing ADR, and I was watching a sex scene that I was in. I had this really detached moment where I realized I was looking at my own behind in third person.

Robert Kazinsky

#5. Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine.

Wayne Dyer

#6. It makes you love vividly, work intensely, and realize that, in the scheme of things, you really don't have time to sit on the sofa in your undies watching Homes Under the Hammer.

Caitlin Moran

#7. I was the son of a publican and a master builder. He ran the Empire Hotel in North Hobart. His name was Max, too. Big Max.

Max Walker

#8. My dad never decided what he wanted to do; at times he fought in the army, was a teacher, a boxer, a light engineer, and a then a publican. My mum was a traditional housewife and mother. They showed my brother and I unconditional love.

Anthony Browne

#9. See how ye Pharisee in the Temple stands,
And justifies himself with lifted hands.
Whilst ye poor publican with downcast eyes,
Conscious of guilt to God for mercy cries.

John Bunyan

#10. Character, that subtle art, disappeared among them during those days and nights, existed only in a book or on a painted wall.

Michael Ondaatje

#11. Jemima Jane Erickson was one drunken pass away from jumping Ethan Weston's bones. He just didn't know it.

Amy Andrews

#12. In church I feel very close to the publican of the parable.

Giulio Andreotti

#13. Make account that thou hast done nothing, and then thou hast done all. For if, being sinners, when we account ourselves to be what we are, we become righteous, as indeed the Publican did; how much more, when being righteous we account ourselves to be sinners.

Saint John Chrysostom

#14. The Publican, in that he was an extortioner, unjust and an adulterer, made it thereby manifest that he did not love his neighbour; and thou by making a god, a saviour, a deliverer, of thy filthy righteousness, dost make it appear, that thou dost not love thy God;

John Bunyan

#15. A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.

Isabel Allende

#16. It's the American way: if you don't vote, you don't get to whine.

Dan Rather

#17. Do you know who I am, you sodding barn animal?" he hissed. The publican gurgled. "I'm Jack fucking Winter." Jack said, releasing him with a push that rattled clean glasses on the bar back.

Caitlin Kittredge

#18. A locked-room problem lies at the heart of my new novel, 'In The Morning I'll Be Gone,' in which an RUC detective has to find out whether a publican's daughter who fell off a table in a bar that was locked from the inside was in fact murdered.

Adrian McKinty

#19. fun challenges. Losses inspire them to work harder to improve and pressure moments of a match are longed for rather than dreaded. As Billie Jean King said in the title of her recent book, "Pressure is a Privilege.

Greg Moran

#20. And pray, who are you?"
Said the Violet blue
To the Bee, with surprise,
At his wonderful size,
In her eyeglass of dew.
"I, madam," quoth he,
"Am a publican Bee,
Collecting the tax
Of honey and wax.
Have you nothing for me?

John B. Tabb

#21. The strong and the weak cannot keep company.

Aesop

#22. For the Celtic soul is the stronghold of dreams, of longings come down the dim paths of the ages; and within it there dwells a vague discontent, so that it must for ever go questing. And

Radclyffe Hall

#23. An argument can be made that relationship building is the treatment.

Leston Havens

#24. What you put out into the world will always come back for you.

Dennis Lehane

#25. Knowledge is power? No. Knowledge on its own is nothing, but the application of useful knowledge, now that is powerful.

Rob Liano