L. Frank Baum Quotes

The absurd and legendary devil is the enigma of the Church.

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• I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Important
  • Baby
  • Identity

• The first 'Monsters, Inc.' represents starting at Pixar for me, I have a special place in my heart for it. So to be able to tell a story with those ideas is an honor.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Heart
  • Ideas
  • Honor

• I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Know

• My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Parents
  • Painful

• The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • God
  • Job
  • Friend

• Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Goals
  • Based
  • Objectives

• As much as we need to approve the Keystone pipeline, we need to think far broader than that.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Think
  • Need
  • Far

• I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Money
  • Through
  • Some

• Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Women
  • Mother

• A publicly run health care program could compete with private insurance companies, which have a record of overcharging and underperforming.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Health
  • Care
  • Insurance

• India has large proven reserves of gas that remain unexploited.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • India
  • Remain
  • Gas

• But a funny thing happened four years later. I was invited to play for an alumni team against the Red Wings.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Funny
  • Team
  • Red

• You question yourself all the time as a footballer. You have to focus on the positives.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Time
  • Question
  • Focus

• Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Books
  • Public
  • Quarrels

• 'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Nice
  • Tennis
  • Saying

• I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Always
  • More
  • Accomplishment

• I was never really a comic-book fanatic.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Book
  • Never
  • Really

• My general philosophy of playing bad guys, which I've sort of done, you know, half the time is, you know, very few people who we view as bad guys get out of bed and think, 'What evil, terrible thing am I going to do today?' Most people see their motivations as justified - as, you know, justifying whatever they do.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion." "Ooh" said Susan. "I'd thought he was a man. Is he-quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion"..."Safe?" said Mr Beaver ..."Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Good
  • Great
  • Men

• A lot of people feel like God doesn’t love them or hates them or isn’t concerned about them. You’ll be surprised by the people who are afraid to come to church, because they feel like the church is going to burn up and fall down if they do. But I want to show that God is for you.

  

  Hezekiah Walker
  • People
  • God
  • Church

• Galaxie 500 broke up because it was time. We broke up as a result of internal contradictions.

  

  Dean Wareham
  • Up
  • Time

• Words, for me, don't have as much contextual leeway as sound.

  

  Brian Chippendale
  • Words
  • Sound

• Back when Saddam Hussein was in power, the Americans didn't care about his crimes. When he was gassing the Kurds and gassing Iran, they didn't care about it. When oil was at stake, somehow, suddenly, things mattered.

  

  Sam Richards
  • Power
  • Care
  • Oil

• The absurd and legendary devil is the enigma of the Church.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Church
  • Devil