Sidesaddle Shows Quotes

#1. Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.

Bill Viola

#2. Love is a powerful tie, son. At the end, it's the thing that pulls us back together when everything else has pulled us apart.

Leonard Pitts Jr.

#3. I am continually embarrassed by people who point me out as an example of what can be done without training.

Kate Smith

#4. It strikes me as unfortunate that this approach - affording the same dignity to and investing in the same quality for a poor child as you would for your own - is so often received as provocative.

Jacob Lief

#5. Bottom line, wasn't life itself a special occasion?

Jan Karon

#6. Education - lifelong education for everyone - from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers - is indeed an excellent investment for individuals and society as a whole.

Ben Bernanke

#7. I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason ...

Cato The Younger

#8. He had a marvelously versatile gift for forgetting things.

Heywood Broun

#9. Scarcity brings clarity.

James A. Whittaker

#10. Going to a movie so you won't be offended is like eating potato chips made with Olestra; you avoid the dangers of the real thing, but your insides fill up with synthetic runny stuff.

Roger Ebert

#11. Sitting on a sofa that smelled like an earlier era

Haruki Murakami

#12. I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit.

Stephen King

#13. The fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.

George Eliot