Steven Amsterdam Quotes
I've always thought flight was fun and wanted to write about flight, and I knew a lot of househusbands who were having a really bad time with it. I thought flight might perk up a marriage here or there.
Quotes to Explore
-
Without the media, the American people won't have the type of information they need to hold their leaders to account. The relationship between government and media has always been strained, and I think most of the time that's a healthy strain.
-
It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
-
I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
-
Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.
-
Running back was always my favorite position.
-
'Trapped in the Closet' is pretty much forever. I've got a leash on this thing now. I'm going to walk it.
-
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
-
At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.
-
Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
-
Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
-
At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
-
We should all love animals.
-
The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
-
Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?
-
There's no alternative to Catalan independence.
-
When pastors don't have rich spiritual lives with Christ, they become victimized by other models of success - models conveyed to them by their training, by their experience in the church, or just by our culture.
-
I love having the support of my caucus. We have a good working relationship.
-
When I look back at my life now, I'm not amazed by what I did at 16 to 21.
-
Ford Fairlane was one of those movies that was so much fun to make that it was bound not to be a big hit.
-
I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
-
Instead of engaging in cutthroat competition, we should strive to create value. In economic terms, this means a transition from a consumer economy - the mad rush for ownership and consumption - to a constructive economy where all human beings can participate in the act of creating lasting worth.
-
I've always thought flight was fun and wanted to write about flight, and I knew a lot of househusbands who were having a really bad time with it. I thought flight might perk up a marriage here or there.
