Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

We come to Scripture not to learn a subject but to steep ourselves in a person.

C. S. Lewis

Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.

Benjamin Rush

Now if the study of the Scriptures be necessary to our happiness at any time in our life, the sooner we begin to read them, the more we shall be attached to them...

Bible Bible

For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

Blaise Pascal

All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.

Charles Spurgeon

Within the Scripture there is a balm for every wound, a salve for every sore.

Athanasius

The Holy and Inspired Scriptures are sufficient of themselves for the preaching of the Truth.

English Proverbs

For how can we adopt those things which we do not find in the holy Scriptures?

Albert Einstein

The Jewish scriptures admirably illustrate the development from the religion of fear to moral religion, a development continued in the New Testament. The religions of all civilized peoples, especially the peoples of the Orient, are primarily moral religions.

Ayn Rand

A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.

Carol Anshaw

It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot line on.

Walter Kirn

A loving mother-son relationship is always a plot or outwitting of some kind. 'Don't tell anyone, but...' my mother was always saying to me - when I wasn't saying it to her.

Vicki Lawrence

Tim Conway was a little different from the rest. He was always in the back of the studio building something with the prop man, rewriting his lines, or plotting our demise.

Rose McIver

Tinker Bell needs a Tinker Bell. She needs someone plotting for her. I certainly think that it's something she wants.

Don DeLillo

Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not.

Clive Cussler

Sometimes my plot lines are so convoluted, I get calls from friends at 3 am saying; you SOB, you'll never pull this one off.

David Byrne

Living "in" a story, being part of a narrative, is much more satisfying than living without one. I don't always know what narrative it is, because I'm living my life and not always reflecting on it, but as I edit these pages I am aware that I have an urge to see my sometimes random wandering as having a plot, a purpose guided by some underlying story.

David Letterman

Here's the plot of 'Interstellar.' Refugees - they're known as Democrats - they're looking for a new planet.

C. S. Lewis

The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.

C. S. Lewis

History is a story written by the finger of God.

Cecelia Ahern

They say a story loses something with each telling.

Cecelia Ahern

Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.

Bill Bryson

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

Trinny Woodall

I don't have a problem with the stories saying I'm skinny at all.

Jocelyn Moorhouse

I am interested in stories that concern women.

Paul Slavin

There are stories that you don't have to be first on.

Candace Bushnell

I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'