Ragpickers Quotes

#1. Strange that so much suffering is caused because of the misunderstandings of God's true nature. God's heart is more gentle than the Virgin's first kiss upon the Christ. And God's forgiveness to all, to any thought or act, is more certain than our own being.

St. Catherine Of Siena

#2. Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuine religious experience is anything but that. True religion is by nature disruptive of
what has been, giving birth to the eternally new.

Marianne Williamson

#3. I have to be a freelance writer for the rest of my life, unless I get some kind of real lucky break. But other than that, I'll always have to work. I always worry about whether my stuff is going to get over. Will they like this, will they like that?

Harvey Pekar

#4. What is guilt? It is moral self-reproach-I did wrong when it was possible to have done otherwise.

Nathaniel Branden

#5. I love Woody Allen. He's very clever, always thinking, and he's great with actors. He lets actors do what they want to do and occasionally he'll give them a specific kind of direction.

Vilmos Zsigmond

#6. I listen a lot to rap, and I'm inspired to take it, to use it in another way, to get the message across.

Stevie Wonder

#7. Why did the stories I knew best never end well?
But why too did I feel at home among them?
I could never give up the myths, the maps, the ship that had shaped me.
Blake's home might be paradise, but my home was the Temptation.

Heidi Heilig

#8. Oh, I would say, you've never understood me, Harry, that not out of vengeance have I accomplished all my sins but because something has always been close to dying in my soul, and I've sinned only in order to lie down in darkness and find, somewhere in the net of dreams, a new father, a new home.

William Styron

#9. As I aspire, I inspire ... there's room for all of us!

J. Hale Turner

#10. The only one that I think I could beat, if my life depended on it, would be the Predator. If it was in my territory, in my domain, with the guns that I've got, I think I could hurt him pretty bad. That's the only one, though. When you get into metaphysical creatures, they don't play fair.

Lance Henriksen

#11. Always keep your eyes open. Keep watching. Because whatever you can see can inspire you.

Grace Coddington

#12. The American people are not uniquely, but characteristically the most spontaneously generous in the world and you're seeing that all over this country in Web sites of charitable organizations that are crashing because of the overwhelming desire on the part of ordinary people to help out.

Richard Norton Smith

#13. It was a cream colored trapeze, sleeveless with a keyhole top that may or may not have been showing managerialappropriate cleavage. -Georgina

Richelle Mead

#14. Any page by Paul Goodman will give you not only originality and brilliance but wisdom, that is, something to think about. He is our peculiar, urban, twentieth-century Thoreau, the quintessential American mind of our time.

Hayden Carruth

#15. Time is the great art of man.

Napoleon Bonaparte