William Gurnall Quotes

Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.

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• Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Music
  • Think
  • Talent

• That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Today
  • Television
  • News

• Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Experience
  • Failure
  • End

• I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.

  

  Usher
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Morning

• You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Past
  • You
  • Mistakes

• What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Real
  • Artist
  • Prestige

• I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Business
  • Hope
  • Animal

• With my book 'How to Remodel a Man,' I was on 'Oprah,' 'Fox News,' 'The Early Show,' and 'Good Morning America.' 'Oprah' was the best - an hour long segment. TV is so short, you answer a few questions, and then it's over. It feels like a hit-and-run with a camera.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Good
  • Long
  • Book

• Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Why
  • Want
  • Technology

• If I could marry my motorcycle, I'd roll her right up to the altar.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Right
  • Motorcycle
  • Marry

• The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Power
  • Need
  • Slavery

• My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • World
  • Me
  • Daughter

• I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Music
  • Long
  • Play

• Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Great
  • True

• There is a lot of negativity that you welcome into your life when you're an actor. You bare your soul for anyone to see.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Welcome

• I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• You have to constantly redefine who you are.

  

  M.I.A.
  • You
  • Who
  • Redefine

• Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • World
  • Justice
  • Give It

• Some people ask how the conservative media can continue to defend Trump. It's very easy for them: No matter how bad Trump is, the mainstream media and the Left will always be worse, you know? Don't expect Rush Limbaugh to turn on him.

  

  Charlie Sykes
  • People
  • Bad
  • Trump

• The brain knows the real secret of seduction, more effective than even music and martinis. Just keep whispering, 'Gee, you are really special' to that sack of water and protein that is a body, and you can get it to do practically anything.

  

  Alison Gopnik
  • Music
  • Real
  • Water

• He hung up on her. She'd just been hung up on by a disembodied brain in a jar. Fantastic.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • She
  • Brain

• I think that genre distinctions basically boil down to marketing categories, which are outdated. Any time people have an argument about them, they're arguing about something that doesn't exist in any meaningful way that has to do with style or substance or actual content of books.

  

  Emily Gould
  • Style
  • Books
  • Argument

• Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.

  

  William Gurnall
  • Prayer
  • Promise
  • Argument