St Gregory Quotes

#1. We Catholics are very much given to the Instant Answer. Fiction doesn't have any. It leaves us, like Job, with a renewed sense of mystery. St. Gregory wrote that every time the sacred text describes a fact, it reveals a mystery. That is what the fiction writer, on his lesser level, hopes to do.

Flannery O'Connor

#2. Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.

Vikram Seth

#3. Nikki, darling, light of my life. Can I have my driver take you to work?

J. Kenner

#4. Judaism is in all my books.

Bernard Werber

#5. Taylor," Nathan said, "Why didn't you take the rest of us?"
"I didn't want to put you in danger," she said.
"Gee, thanks," I said.
"Hey, I brought Jayden, remember? He insisted on bringing you."
"Gee, thanks," Jayden crossed his arms and frowned.

Embee

#6. Be not anxious about what you have, but about what you are.

St. Gregory The Great

#7. People come into public life for different reasons. None of us are ego-challenged, I think, or we probably wouldn't be doing what we're doing, so if anyone tells you that they don't like the sound of the applause and the ego gratification, I don't think they're being straight with you.

Evan Bayh

#8. What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules & verifies the details & particulars of a valley & its frame of crags & peaks, then Poetry comes, & lays bare the whole landscape with a single splendid flash.

Mark Twain

#9. No one presumes to teach an art that he has not first mastered through study. How foolish therefore for the inexperienced to assume pastoral authority when the care of souls is the art of arts.

St. Gregory Dialogos

#10. And he crosses the line with the ball almost mesmerically tied to his foot with a piece of string.

Ian Darke

#11. Compassion is the ability to see how it all is.

Ram Dass

#12. I can dance. I like hip hop and stuff and jazz movements, but I'm horrible in ballet. I tried.

Keke Palmer