Evelyn Underhill Quotes

You don't have to be peculiar to find God.

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• There was this old soccer game called 'Goal' for the old Nintendo, and ever since then, I've played everything from the old school games to the 360.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • School
  • Game
  • Goal

• I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Art
  • Funny
  • Dark

• Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Well
  • Open
  • Desperation

• The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Funny
  • Place
  • First

• I have a lot of faith in the power of joking to make something thoughtful.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Power
  • Faith
  • Thoughtful

• I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors.

  

  Edmund White
  • Beautiful
  • New York
  • Editors

• Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Mind
  • Church
  • Period

• Tarzan of the Apes lived on in his wild, jungle existence with little change for several years, only that he grew stronger and wiser, and learned from his books more and more of the strange worlds which lay somewhere outside his primeval forest.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Forest

• In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Consistency

• Everywhere - all over Africa and South America … you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people want. There's a certain sort of logic leading towards these immaculate suburbs. And they're terrifying, because they are the death of the soul … This is the prison this planet is being turned into.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• singing the song her therapist told her to improvise in order to 'let her anxieties out' If I keep the kitchen floor clean, no one will die!

  

  Maria Bamford
  • Song
  • Die
  • Singing

• The truth is that I have lived on an even keel. I don't go down, and I don't go up. I believe in living above the line. Above the line is happiness and love, you know. Below the line is all sadness and destruction and unhappiness. And I don't go down below the line for anything.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Truth

• That's one thing you Americans take for granted, you know? That you can grow up, you know, not so good circumstances, and you can move. Just because you are born in rural Arkansas, whatever, that doesn't define who you are.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • Up
  • Good

• All I hope, selfishly, is that there will be real books until the day I draw my last breath.

  

  Jane Hamilton
  • Real
  • Hope

• As I say, we Norwegians love our woolens, and you can buy some beautiful knitwear in Oslo. They might cost you a bit - but they will last.

  

  Jo Nesbo
  • Beautiful

• Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature.

  

  Chaim Potok
  • Nature
  • Culture
  • Violence

• I would never give anybody any advice about anything.

  

  Clive Owen
  • Advice

• If you only ever heard "Valley Girl," or "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow," or a song that has a comedic narrative, you would get some impression that that was novelty music, but that's the only stuff that ever got on the radio. You can make the argument that that's what has confused generations as to what his music's about.

  

  Dweezil Zappa
  • Music
  • Song
  • Girl

• As soon as you're willing to humble yourself and say, God, please help - then you can find out that His strength really is perfect, that He really does care for you, that He does really want to meet your need.

  

  Steven Curtis Chapman
  • God
  • Help
  • Perfect

• Tell this imprisoned soul that it will never be owned. Nothing will ever own you. But God.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • God
  • Soul

• In two nights you're going to have the Republican candidates here. They all support the war. They all support the president. They all supported the escalation. Each of us is trying in our own way to bring the war to an end.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Trying
  • War
  • Support

• The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, helpless, faithful animal race form the blackest chapter in the whole world's history.

  

  R. Edward Freeman
  • World
  • History
  • Animal

• You don't have to be peculiar to find God.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • God
  • Find