St Matthew Quotes

#1. We take our last look at the killing noise.

Jimi Hendrix

#2. Gray hair is gray hair.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. At the top, he dipped the tip of his tongue in and tasted Caleb's essence. Delicious. Another jewel-like drop appeared, as if by magic. Matt stole it as well.

Dan Skinner

#4. Gratefully accepting the proffered honor, [to inscribe a new legal work to him] I give the leave, begging only that the inscription may be in modest terms, not representing me as a man of great learning, or a very extraordinary one in any respect.

Abraham Lincoln

#5. In the bank they did the same kind of stuff the fortune-teller and the bookie had done. But they dressed better.

Robert B. Parker

#6. Books that take us to an exotic place and never let the grit of that place get under our fingernails...are far less successful. One leaves the places of the book and never feels like one's really gotten one's imaginative passport stamped.

Andrew Lazo

#7. He could've penned a rendition of Moby Dick in Pig Latin and he wouldn't have been the wiser.

Kelly Moran

#8. I was in seventh grade at St. Matthew's. The teachers would tell me, 'God loves you,' and then whack a ruler across my hand. 'Well,' I'd say, 'if God loves me, can you call God? Can you ask Him if it's all right that I didn't do my homework? If it's not, then let Him hit me.'

Freddie Prinze

#9. Prepare ye the way of the Lord

Isaiah

#10. I do not think that you can be changing the end of a song or a story like that, as though it were quite separate from the rest. I think the end of a story is part of it from the beginning.

Rosemary Sutcliff

#11. Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's St Matthew Passion on a ukulele: The instrument is too crude for the work, for the audience and for the performer.

Ben Bagdikian

#12. In Rome, I loved seeing the Caravaggios. There are churches in Rome that have Caravaggios, and there's one, not far from Piazza Navona, that has the best, I think: St. Matthew with the money.

Owen Wilson

#13. If we are all to them is a pile of shit, then let's be a shit all the way, shoulder to shoulder, because they're bound to get splattered with some of the shit that we supposedly are

Jose Saramago

#14. They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that rises up from the depths of time.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#15. Wisdom of the Ages "Assault and Battery" Weather forecast for the St. Louis Rams next Sunday in Seattle.

Matthew D. Heines

#16. It was stories like these that would stun Miller into silence, bury him alive with desire to save her. He called her "the saddest girl in the world," which she accurately interpreted as a statement as love.

Elizabeth Winder

#17. ...he'll never lie - the man is far too wise.

Homer

#18. Behind us hung a Correggio St. Sebastian with the habitual Buchmanite expression on his face. "Awful tripe," said Uncle Matthew. "Fella wouldn't be grinning, he'd be dead with all those arrows in him.

Nancy Mitford

#19. Nic loves Elf's odd requests, each one is like a holiday for him ... and he's not a Mennonite, which is important
in a man
for Elf. Mennonite men have wasted too much of her time already, trying to harvest her soul and shackle her to shame.

Miriam Toews

#20. I know of no human being who has a better time than an eager and energetic young reporter.

H.L. Mencken