E. C. Bentley Quotes

No two snowflakes are alike.

I have been waiting a long time for this. It's been my dream forever. Now that it's a reality, I love it. I haven't been burnt out at all and I have a bunch of guys with me that feel the same way.

It is all very well to say that a man should play for the pure love of the game. Perhaps he ought, but to the working man it is impossible.

Ours is the age of substitutes: Instead of language we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright suggestions.

I'm thinking of you, that's all I do, all the time. You're always the first and the last thing on this heart of mine. No matter where I go, or what I do, I'm thinking of you.

Of all the forms of water the tiny six-pointed crystals of ice called snow are incomparably the most beautiful and varied.

He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.

Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.

God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for the other that delights in the distance of otherness.

true philosophical atheism must be regarded as a superstition, often nurtured by an infantile wish to live in a world proportionate to one's own hopes or conceptual limitations.

Both my parents are Methodist preachers, I grew up in a church.

Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.

Learning history is easy; learning its lessons seems almost impossibly difficult.

I'm always looking for things that make me kind of uncomfortable.

The one reality you can't evade is personal experience.

Her interest in natural history was confined to observation of the crows' feet gathering around her eyes.

No news is good news. No journalists is even better.

When I was 13, I was just figuring out how to play 'Eruption,' poorly, by Eddie Van Halen.

Evidence for or against God, if it is there, saturates every moment of the experience of existence, every employment of reason, every act of consciousness, every encounter with the world around us.

The world is unable to provide any account of its own actuality, and yet there it is all the same.

Sir Humphrey Davy Abominated gravy. He lived in the odium Of having discovered sodium. Said to have been written as a schoolboy during a chemistry class at St. Paul's School.

My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you're constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories.

I also was a huge 'Dukes of Hazzard' fan. I used to have T-shirts that said 'Dierks of Hazzard' custom-made.

I'm a member of the George Jones fan club, and I'm a member of U2's fan club.

You cant write about stuff you dont know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. Live life to be a good songwriter.

The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

Real life ... it was an ambiguous world, where actions sometimes had no meaning, where chaos reigned and no one was allowed to see the big picture, only their small portion of it.

To live and to laugh require a reason. But dancing is so close to one's guts that it has no reason and yet it needs none; it's physical, and as a source of good cheer it is end endless.

In my ministry, I teach my disciples, "Power first, then the Word. Go in and prophesy first, or demonstrate the power of God first in some way."

It's not my job to produce results. But it is my job to lay my hands on the sick, the oppressed, and to preach the Gospel.

When you go to the Opry for a show or hear it on the radio, you get the whole circle of country music.

So darlin' if your wonderin' why I brought you here tonight I wanna be your husband I want you to be my wife I ain't got much to give you but what I got means everything Its my last name

Blackberry Smoke is the real deal!

I grew up in the church and had religion in my life for a long time. I'm not really a church goer, but I definitely have a hunger for a spiritual connection to the world and for my soul to be healed.

Sometimes, there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it. Like my heart's going to cave in.

That's what I love about Nashville and the music community - seeing kids around acoustic music and bluegrass picking parties is the best.

I still consider myself a very spiritual person but the structure of the church isn't really for me.

I'm a huge fan of Billy Idol. I spiked my hair every day like him in 7th and 8th grade.

Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy.

Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.

Popular atheism is not a philosophy but a therapy.

Sir James Jeans Always says what he means He is really perfectly serious About the Universe being Mysterious.

Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know judge wisely?

Life is short. Eternity is long.

There were shadows galore in the dim light, but there was one shadow that did not correspond to any object in the room. It lurked next to the fireplace, a formless, undulating darkness.

If something is worth being rude about, it is worth understanding as well.

I think the great country songs mixed with some of that bluegrass instrumentation - and surrounding all that with a little bit of a rock vibe and energy - is the kind of music I make.

He who enjoys a good neighbor, said the Greeks, has a precious possession. Same goes for neighbour's wife.

I try to make an album that reflects what I love about country music. It's not just all about happy parties all the time. There are some sad songs.