Splendid Performance Quotes

#1. So Elizabeth, dare we take the dance floor again in hopes of repeating that splendid performance given by Lydia?

Elizabeth Eulberg

#2. The Bible does not say you are God's appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.

John Ortberg

#3. SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady of splendid promise, dissembled purpose and disappointing performance.

Ambrose Bierce

#4. Let my temptation be a book.

Eugene Field

#5. The past was a trove of hard-won wisdom.

Dean Koontz

#6. A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law.

Samuel Alito

#7. War became less about machine-gun chatter and spectacular explosions and more about people.

Jerry Spinelli

#8. In the beginning," Scripture taught, "there was the Word," and Danny would come to believe that the two great gifts his God had given to the species He loved were time, which divides experience, and language, which binds the past to the future.

Mary Doria Russell