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  • My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language. -- Edward Gibbon
  • I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows. -- Ed Koch
  • In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out. -- Gail Sheehy
  • The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
  • I don't necessarily make much art myself, but after I wrote 'Warped Passages,' I was fortunate to get involved a little in the art world. I got invited to write a libretto for what we called a projective opera, and I also got invited to curate an art exhibit. -- Lisa Randall
  • Old age and the passage of time teach all things. -- Sophocles
  • House passage is good news for the Northwest corner and our environment. -- Nancy Johnson
  • To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing. -- Lance Henriksen
  • My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road. -- Kenny Loggins
  • Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible. -- Balthus
  • Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. -- Richard Dawkins
  • Living most of the time in a world created mostly in one's head, does not make for an easy passage in the real world. -- Sydney Brenner
  • Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house. -- Francis Parkman
  • Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.' -- Cesare Lombroso
  • Feverishly we cleared away the remaining last scraps of rubbish on the floor of the passage before the doorway, until we had only the clean sealed doorway before us. -- Howard Carter
  • We're building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can do to carry forward policies. -- Janet Reno
  • We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be. -- Lauren Hutton
  • I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full. -- Arthur Ashe
  • I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that. -- William Kidd
  • The passage of time is a continuing thing. At 18, youre going to live forever, and you are definitely not at 52, so that is a recurring topic. I still think its the main stuff. -- Peter Hammill
  • I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere. -- Maya Lin
  • When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me. -- W. Somerset Maugham
  • Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life. -- Kim Novak
  • Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? -- Walt Whitman
  • Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. -- Thomas Mann
  • I support and have always supported passage of a federal constitutional amendment that defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman. As President, I will fight for passage of this amendment. My personal belief is that marriage is between one man and one woman, for life. -- Mike Huckabee
  • New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights. -- Hamilton Wright Mabie
  • I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse. -- Anthony Trollope
  • For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex. -- William H. Gass
  • Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages. -- Cameron Diaz
  • Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well. -- Charles Van Doren
  • One of my favorite passages in 'Leaves of Grass,' that breathless, exuberant poem so rich and full of innocence and joy and generosity and compassion, is 'Mannahatta.' -- Cathleen Schine
  • The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia. -- Tracy Kidder
  • During my life I have heard many sermons on the Resurrection. I can recite the events of that first Easter Sunday. I have marked in my scriptures passages regarding the Resurrection. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan. -- Erica Jong
  • Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play. -- Paul Watzlawick
  • The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that reach the most intimate areas of our psyche without being tried by prejudices or influences of any kind. -- Andrea Bocelli
  • About 100 things that your kid will do that will surprise you and break your heart and it will be a combination of fact based therapy, medically advised kinds of passages accompanied by celebrity anecdotes and just some funny stuff to lighten the load. -- Alan Thicke
  • As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through. -- Otto Dix
  • I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scripture is, 'in as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.' Matthew 25:40. -- Elizabeth Warren
  • The Bible... provides no guide to reading the Bible. In fact, it is full of such inconsistencies, contradictions, lacunae, obscurities, baffling tales, and poetic imagery that to quote it at all is to select from conflicting alternative passages. Every quotation is therefore necessarily an interpretation. -- James P. Carse
  • One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. -- Walter Pater
  • I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don't have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don't adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind. -- Jimmy Carter
  • When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all the curious details, all the so-called beautiful writing - if they are not truly relevant to what I am trying to say, then they have to go. -- Paul Auster
  • They say it's not the snoring itself but those anxiety-packed moments in between snorts. It's the waiting for the nasal passages of the person lying beside you to strike again. And strike it always does. In the dark, almost against your will, you produce that special glare reserved for people who cannot control their own behaviour. -- Sloane Crosley
  • The censors have always had a field day with James Joyce, specifically with 'Ulysses,' but also with his other writings. The conventional wisdom is that this is because of sexually explicit passages (and there certainly are those). I have always thought that what the critics hated and feared about Joyce is his cry for human freedom. -- Karen DeCrow
  • I tend to start with a kernel, a vague concept, and just begin to write things down - notes about a character, lines of dialogue, descriptive passages about a place. One idea fires another. I do that for about a year. By then there's a story, and I'll go on to a complete first draft that sews many of those ragtag pieces together. -- Scott Turow
  • I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life. -- Jimmy Carter
  • There aren't many great passages written about food, but I love one by George Millar, who worked for the SOE in the second world war and wrote a book called 'Horned Pigeon.' He had been on the run and hadn't eaten for a week, and his description of the cheese fondue he smells in the peasant kitchen of a house in eastern France is unbelievable. -- Sebastian Faulks
  • History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues. -- T. S. Eliot
  • What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages. -- Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Apertures, passages from one world to another. Man's escape hatches. -- P. K. Page
  • What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages. -- Justin Cronin
  • I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative. -- Janet Evanovich
  • You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages. -- Al Stewart
  • There are secret passages all around you if you know where to look for them. -- Steven Carroll
  • The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • I always work with text orally in the writing process, saying passages aloud to measure flow. -- Vivek Shraya
  • I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value! -- Sam Palladio
  • That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors. -- Kelly Corrigan
  • At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets. -- Bernard Bailyn
  • Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in. It's change you can Xerox. -- Hillary Clinton
  • I think my methods are more suggestive than assertive. Check out those passages again and see what you think. -- Paul Lisicky
  • When I read passages like this, I want to look for the nearest wall to bang my head against. -- S. T. Joshi
  • Perhaps no more beautiful passages have ever been written about the Savior's atonement and crucifixion than those written by Isaiah. -- Jeffrey R. Holland
  • You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident. -- Dylan Thomas
  • The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Many of the passages that describe the millennial kingdom also, in continuity, describe the new heaven and the new earth the eternal state. -- Paul P. Enns
  • Life, like classical music, is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular skill. -- Sheri L. Dew
  • After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities. -- T. S. Eliot
  • Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand. -- Mark Twain
  • Hebrews . This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books are very admirable. -- James F. Cooper
  • Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism. -- Marguerite Young
  • He also keeps his silence when Bible passages become shredded to justify unwinding, and kids start to see the face of God in the fragments. -- Neal Shusterman
  • There are people whom even children's literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon. -- Anton Chekhov
  • As my wise friend Didi has more than once observed about life's passages, every departure entails an arrival elsewhere, every arrival implies a departure from afar. -- Claire Messud
  • Even in its darkest passages, the heart is unconquerable. It is important that the body survives, but it is more meaningful that the human spirit prevails. -- Dave Pelzer
  • The mole is an animal that digs passages searching for the sun. Sometimes he reaches the surface. When he looks at the sun he goes blind. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
  • We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary. -- Ken Follett
  • In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning. -- George Orwell
  • The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines in his poems. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
  • My most interesting correspondence is with my translators. I marvel at their sensitivity over certain passages that just anyone, even if he knows German well, would not appreciate. -- Heinrich Boll
  • But there's also a strong emotional core to counterbalance the experimentalism, with some incredibly moving passages around the narrator's relationship with her (also female) German teacher. It's beautiful. -- Deborah Smith
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  • There are passages of the Bible that are soiled forever by the touches of the hands of ministers who delight in the cheap jokes they have left behind them. -- Phillips Brooks
  • Never can a room look comfortable without books ... Books ought to be scattered all over the house, even in the passages, in the bedroom, les livres du chevet, everywhere. -- Elisabeth of Wied
  • Apollodorus says, "If any one were to take away from the books of Chrysippus all the passages which he quotes from other authors, his paper would be left empty. -- Diogenes Laertius
  • The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia -- Tracy Kidder
  • ...nothing physical which sense-experience sets before our eyes, or which necessary demonstrations prove to us, ought to be called into question (much less condemned) upon the testimony of biblical passages. -- Galileo Galilei
  • I do keep a tiny little journal in which I write passages that I read and want to hold on to. This practice is sort of the opposite of Twitter. -- Dani Shapiro
  • But Rosa soon made the discovery that Miss Twinkleton didn't read fairly. She cut the love-scenes, interpolated passages in praise of female celibacy, and was guilty of other glaring pious frauds. -- Charles Dickens
  • For Christians, the problem is not how to reconcile homosexuality with scriptural passages that condemn it, but how to reconcile the rejection and punishment of homosexuals with the love of Christ. -- William Sloane Coffin
  • The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
  • Yeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle, and sometimes your original intent changes quite a bit. -- Roy Lichtenstein
  • I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to. -- Helene Hanff
  • The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this again offers contradiction to constant succession of germs in progress. -- Charles Darwin
  • You own a dog with the knowledge that it will move through the stages of existence in fast forward, providing you with a lesson about your own life passages if you let it. -- Antonya Nelson
  • I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race. -- Jennifer Carpenter
  • He [Omar Khayyam] is an atheist, but knows how to interpret in orthodox style the most difficult passages of the Koran; for every educated man is a theologian and faith is not a requisite. -- Jorge Luis Borges
  • First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind. -- Francis Bacon
  • If I repeated some passages from the homilies of the Church Fathers, in the second or third century, about how we must treat the poor, some would accuse me of giving a Marxist homily. -- Pope Francis
  • Tim sends me a fairly ambitious workup in notebook form noting the passages we're going to cover and the chronology of the biblical events, and his commentaries on those things he's read and written. -- Jerry B. Jenkins
  • Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed. -- Stanislaw Lem
  • For years and years I carried these notebooks around with me - I had hundreds of pages of notes, these fragments that consisted of biographical anecdotes, diary passages, critical rants, agitations, scenes of my marriage. -- Kate Zambreno
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