Quotes About Revelation

My parents in America always told me that I was adopted. It's never been a secret to me.

It's hard to get someone, particularly agents, to tell you the truth.

If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.

I don't like alien films where you don't get to see the aliens.

We just found that in 2016, if you announce a record, and it's coming out in three months, and you're just giving people breadcrumbs, it's the most boring, drawn-out experience.

I am no longer able to be anonymous.

Hmmm... I never get the answer I think I'm going to get.

I never leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein or anyone else!

And I really also wanted to have the full-body scans to learn if it was anywhere else - and it wasn't - before I told them. So I didn't tell them, until for a week, and then I told them.

All the parts I've enjoyed playing the most I didn't know about until they appeared, or it was something I read and fell in love with.

Bei Liebschaften ist es ganz so wie in den Ehen. Der Betroffene erfährt immer alles zuletzt.

Two hours later you might take the room for a battlefield after the fight. Broken glasses, serviettes crumpled and torn to rags lie strewn about among the nauseous-looking remnants of food on the dishes. There is an uproar that stuns you, jesting toasts, a fire of witticisms and bad jokes; faces are empurpled, eyes inflamed and expressionless, unintentional confidences tell you the whole truth.

David empfand die schrecklichste aller Demütigungen. Er verlor die Achtung vor seinem Vater. ~ Verlorene Illusionen

The forty thousand francs you want would be, of course, a mere nothing to Ferdinand, who handles millions with that fat banker, Baron de Nucingen. Sometimes, at dinner, in my presence, they say things to each other which make me shudder. Du Tillet knows my discretion, and they often talk freely before me, being sure of my silence. Well, robbery and murder on the high-road seem to me merciful compared to some of their financial schemes.

A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be brought forth.

Serendipity… you will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called The Three Princes of Serendip: as their highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of…. Now do you understand serendipity?

I know of no fact on which Jesus called the people to rest their faith, that they could not as easily judge of, through the medium of their senses as of any facts in nature.

A revelation from God, if it were written only in the Hebrew or Greek, would be considered of sufficient value to recompense the labor of learning the language.

Maybe that's what the night is for, just so's we can know the difference when the light comes again.

as my eyes grew accustomed to the light, details of the room within emerged slowly from the mist, strange animals, statues, and gold - everywhere the glint of gold. For the moment - an eternity it must have seemed to the others standing by - I was struck dumb with amazement, and when Lord Carnarvon, unable to stand the suspense any longer, inquired anxiously, 'Can you see anything?' it was all I could do to get out the words, 'Yes, wonderful things.

The world is full of mostly invisible things,And there is no way but putting the mind's eye,Or its nose, in a book, to find them out,Things like the square root of EverestOr how many times Byron goes into Texas,Or whether the law of the excluded middleApplies west of the Rockies.

Poetry is a means of seeing invisible things and saying unspeakable things about them.