Sabine Baring-Gould Quotes
One of the great advantages of the study of old Norse or Icelandic literature is the insight given by it into the origin of world-wide superstitions. Norse tradition is transparent as glacier ice, and its origin is as unmistakable.
Quotes to Explore
-
Actors are always the last to see what they have created.
-
I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
-
Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
-
For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
-
There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
-
As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
-
I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
-
I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
-
The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
-
I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
-
It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
-
The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
-
I'm not a Democrat.
-
It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
-
There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'
-
I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.
-
I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
-
I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.
-
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
-
I met a keen observer who gave me a tip: 'If you run across a restaurant where you often see priests eating with priests, or sporting girls with sporting girls, you may be confident that it is good. Those are two classes of people who like to eat well and get their money's worth.'
-
America will start winning again, winning like never before.
-
Let it be known that this is the true Church, in which there is confession and penance and which takes a health-promoting care of the sins and wounds to which the weak flesh is subject.
-
If we may not remain silent about evil in the Church, then neither should we keep silent about the great shining path of goodness and purity which the Christian faith has traced out over the course of the centuries.
-
One of the great advantages of the study of old Norse or Icelandic literature is the insight given by it into the origin of world-wide superstitions. Norse tradition is transparent as glacier ice, and its origin is as unmistakable.
