Jay Parini Quotes

Among the disciples of Jesus, it seems most likely that at least Philip was bilingual in Aramaic and Greek.

Jay Parini

• Jesus
• Greek

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.

  

  Sam Walton
  • People
  • Leadership
  • Name

• I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Think
  • Doing

• I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Knowledge
  • City
  • Myself

• Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Trouble
  • Big
  • Getting

• I'm not ashamed of it, but people would think I'm ashamed of Bieber. I got Bieber on my iPod.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • People
  • Think
  • Got

• My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Good
  • Music
  • Father

• Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • More
  • Indifference
  • Neglect

• I love the sense of how time passes when I'm acting. When you're not aware of the clock ticking, that is always a good sign you're enjoying something.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • Time
  • Sense
  • Enjoying

• I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Fun
  • Yourself
  • Television

• The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Life
  • Worst
  • Misfortunes

• I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Love
  • Crazy
  • Find

• The three hundredth anniversary of the Salem witch trials of 1692 comes at a time when witchcraft commands a scholarly attention that would have been puzzling in 1892 or even in 1792.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Time
  • Attention
  • Three

• The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much about a guy who achieves his dream but about a broken dream of a broken man living a broken life.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Life
  • Guy
  • Dream

• Jellicle Cats come out tonight, Jellicle Cats come one come all: The Jellicle Moon is shining bright - Jellicles come to the Jellicle Ball.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Moon

• Over at our place, we're sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new picture, we don't think of grown-ups, and we don't think of children, but just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep in every one of us that maybe the world has made us forget and that maybe our pictures can help recall.

  

  Walt Disney
  • World
  • Children
  • Help

• Above the mists on Hatheg-Kla, earth's gods sometimes dance reminiscently; for they know they are safe, and love to come from unknown Kadath in ships of clouds and play in the olden way, as they did when earth was new and men not given to the climbing of inaccessible places.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Dance

• The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his Government, deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and friend to her foe.

  

  Andrew Jackson
  • Country
  • Friend
  • Enemy

• Frazer's account of the magical and religious views of mankind is unsatisfactory; it makes these views look like errors.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Religious

• I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Successful
  • Regret
  • More

• Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's really like magic because you transform reality for people.

  

  Louis C. K.
  • People
  • Time
  • Power

• Every child deserves to see themselves in stories they can enjoy, but it isn't the place of white people to decide how and why those stories are created and marketed.

  

  Jennifer Armintrout
  • People
  • Why

• Jesus says, “You have heard it said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife should give her a certificate of divorce’ a command found in Deut. 24:1, but I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife for reason other than sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.” It is hard to see how one can follow Moses’ command to give a certificate of divorce, if in fact divorce is not an option.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Reason
  • Jesus
  • Adultery

• Some immemorial imbecilities have been added deliberately, on the ground that it is just as interesting to note how foolish men have been as to note how wise they have been.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Interesting
  • Wise

• Among the disciples of Jesus, it seems most likely that at least Philip was bilingual in Aramaic and Greek.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Jesus
  • Greek