Quotes about Author
Well, when I was fifteen years old I worked in a lingerie store and that's how I feel in love with vintage lingerie because I wanted to know the history of it.
— Dita Von Teese
Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.
— Joseph Addison
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
— William Hazlitt
Writing for television is completely different from movie scriptwriting. A movie is all about the director's vision, but television is a writer's medium.
— Shonda Rhimes
The idea that I should become president seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.
— Zachary Taylor
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Thomas Goodwin said that "next to the Bible, he esteemed Dr. Ames, his Marrow of Divinity, as the best book in the world.
— Joel Beeke
Admire and adore the Author of the telescopic universe, love and esteem the work, do all in your power to lessen ill, and increase good, but never assume to comprehend.
— John Adams
Politeness, delicacy [and] decency ... are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.
— John Adams
The more extensive our comprehension of God's greatness (though in itself it is incomprehensible), the greater our capacity for fear or reverence of Him.
— John Bevere
It is an infallible truth that if we do not fear God, we will be afraid of Him at the revelation of His glory, for every knee shall bow to Him, if not out of godly fear then out of terror.
— John Bevere
Farewell, I wish our souls may meet with comfort at the journey's end.- The Heavenly Footman: A Puritan's View of How to Get to Heaven.
— John Bunyan