Quotes of Paul - somelinesforyou

“ We have robbed Peter to pay Paul. And we're running out of Peters. And we're getting a greater number of Pauls. ”

- Johnny Isakson

“ I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out. ”

- Art Garfunkel

“ Paul is a very creative artist but I'm more that thorough, meticulous, disciplined nut. ”

- Art Garfunkel

“ I saw a lot of good hitters but I never saw a better one than Paul Waner. I mean I once threw a side arm spitter right into his belly and he hit it into the upper deck. ”

- Burleigh Grimes

“ I picture my epitaph: Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown. ”

- Paul Newman

“ Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth. ”

- Alan Alda

“ A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ. ”

- A. W. Tozer

“ From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes. ”

- Albert Camus

“ Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord. ”

- Pope Benedict XVI

“ I feel safer with a Pyrrho than with a St. Paul. ”

- Emil Cioran

“ You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan. ”

- Burton Cummings

“ Paul has more, I think, of a feel for the stage. Whereas I have it more for the notes themselves. I love record making and mixing, arranging, producing. That I love. I love to make beautiful things, but I don't like to perform. ”

- Art Garfunkel

“ Paul is like John Lennon. They're feisty. There's a rebellious attitude. You know, that's very acceptable. It's standard rebellious attitude stuff. The public tends to like that stuff. It shows that they're feisty, that they're not busy patronizing the proper-sounding, wholesome phrases of the culture. ”

- Art Garfunkel

“ Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things. ”

- Art Garfunkel

“ When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and we would make up radio shows and become disc jockeys on our home wire recorder. And then came rock and roll. ”

- Art Garfunkel

“ As the leader of the Catholic Church, the Holy Father planted seeds of hope in the hearts of millions, helping bring entire nations to the table of peace, and delivering them from tyranny. His ministry to the poor and oppressed was an example to us all, and inspired legions to pursue a life of faith and service… ”

- Mark Green

“ The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration… Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin. ”

- Frank Harris

“ John Paul Sartre became a hero in literature, philosophy, sociology and political science even though his popularity largely depended on his politics, and he was wrong on the most important issues of his time, championing Marxism in spite of the tyranny it spawned. ”

- Suzanne Fields

“ I became a big Stravinsky-oholic and became involved in listening to classical music. Mozart and Beethoven, no. Schumann, no. Stravinsky, yes. Ravel, yes. Benjamin Britten, yes. Paul Hindemith, yes. These are my idols, even today, in classical music. ”

- J. J. Johnson

“ Just as he lived on his own terms, advocating for the rights of human beings, the rights of those who were forgotten or ignored, from victims of rape in Africa, to the homeless on streets worldwide, he chose to move into a more abundant life, not from a hospital bed, but from his home in Vatican City… ”

- Sheila Jackson Lee

“ Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does is their whole life. That comes through in Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson. There is no separating their life from their music. ”

- Lyle Lovett

“ The Magic Findhorn by Paul Hawken is one of the most exciting books I've read for a long time. Anyone who wants to know what the New Age really means should read it. At a time when the world appears to be hurtling towards disaster there comes the miracle that is happening in Findhorn. ”

- Hayley Mills

“ I forgot out there on the stage to thank my cast. So if I could do that now, I want to thank Mr. Bush, Mr. Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz and Donald Rumsfeld. I thought the love scene between Cheney and Rumsfeld brought a tear to my eye. ”

- Michael Moore

“ I love to cheer, and yell, and joke and to celebrate the best basketball in the world. And to see these new players, to see how good they are-guys like Paul Pierce and Jason Kidd and, of course, Shaq and Kobe, who are just off the charts. It's a real pleasure. ”

- Bill Walton

“ I'm so obsessed with this theme that I actually keep a "failure file." What stands out for me in the biographies of Faulkner and Fitzgerald are the months and years they wasted out in Hollywood, getting sodden over their squandered gifts. Cyril Connolly, one of the most distinguished critics of his day, made his name with a book, Enemies of Promise, that elegiacally bemoaned his lack of distinction… ”

- James Atlas

“ The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul's, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra. ”

- Horace Walpole

“ What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls "grace" from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call "rigtheousness… ”

- Victor Hugo
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