Stop Playing Church Quotes

#1. There is no one way to render an idea. Let's explore how masters of the sentence play with length and style to make their sentences distinctive.

Constance Hale

#2. I enjoy recording live better, but I think by the nature of it you are going to end up with something that's a little bit more traditional.

Beck

#3. But you will no doubt agree that the very best staff plans are those which give clear margins of error to allow for those days when an employee is ill or for one reason or another below par.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#4. Foras Road has a sordid reputation ( ... ) Old crones sat in doorways, while their daughters were pushed out to earn money. It is intriguing that a society which is very covert with sexuality should be so straightforward about prostitution.

Tahir Shah

#5. Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.

Errol Morris

#6. Normally, some people think about 50 as a big moment in life. I kind of think 30 because in your baseball career, 30 was considered on top kind of looking at the end of your career. So I remember thinking about 30 in different ways, but 50 just seems like another step right now.

Cal Ripken Jr.

#7. What the soul is in the body, let Christians be in the world.

Saint John Chrysostom

#8. There's the new America for you. Bring them in by the millions. Bring in 10 million more from Africa. Bring them in with AIDS. Show how multicultural you are. They can't reason, but bring them in with a machete in their head. Go ahead. Bring them in with machetes in their mind.

Michael Savage

#9. I did drop out of school.

Don Was

#10. It takes two to make a relationship, but only one to screw it up.

Nigel Lythgoe

#11. There is a lot of opposition. You will experience it. But the joys that come from the study, more than compensate for the opposition, in my opinion. It's a personal choice.

Frederick Lenz

#12. Remember, marriage is not a contractual arrangement. True love doesn't say, "Make me feel this way if you want me to stay." That's not love. Instead, true love says in commitment, "I'm giving myself to you regardless.

Matt Chandler

#13. For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then do without a smile
and without a blush
in steadfast virile seriousness.

Umberto Eco

#14. Temptations are as thick as the leaves of the forest, and no one can be out of the reach of temptation unless he is dead. The great thing is to make people intelligent enough and strong enough, not to keep away from temptation, but to resist it.

Robert Green Ingersoll