Quotes About Gregory

But he loved the contrapuntality of discussion even before he quite understood that words possessed dedicated meanings.

I'm the very glass of fashion and the mold of form. Aren't I, Mewster? You look like a walking hairball, said the kitten.

A few trinkets for my sister," she said. "She's like Miss Galinda, she loves the fancy outside of things.

Alice less winsome than weird, and treated Lydia like a Cerberus

The premise is prejudicial and proves that what's wanted here isn't a trial but a conviction.

Cinema dominated the Fife coalfield towns. We lived in Lochgelly, but my mum was caught up in Hollywood. She was in love with the style and glamour. Sometimes she would come with me to the cinema in the afternoons, and she would say things like, 'I wouldn't mind a peck with Gregory.'

He strode over and I followed him, feeling like a bodyguard. Gregory stayed planted where he was, like Lot's wife after she got a good look.

human rights" cannot serve as a stable, shared basis for morality in a society riven by fundamental disagreement about what "human" means, as is apparent from the abortion debate.

I like to do the research of history and the creativity of writing fiction. I am creating this thing which I think is twice as difficult as writing either history or fiction.

Conspiracy is a small but durable seller, retooled every year or so.

A deadly sins addendum is long overdue. Life has changed since Pope Gregory the Great scribbled his initial list in the sixth century.

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.

I'm a very big Faulkner fan 'cause I'm a Southerner.

Only World War II, which mobilized 10 million draftees, could by any stretch of the imagination be called a people's war.

Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977.

Gregory's words remain a sharp and timely rebuke to the continuing temptation to practice theology as though we could separate the exercise of our mind from the development of our character.

Objection 3: Further, Gregory says (Moral. ii): "God speaks to the angels by the very fact that He shows to their hearts His hidden and invisible things." But this is to enlighten them. Therefore, whenever God speaks, He enlightens. In the same way every angelic speech is an enlightening. Therefore an inferior angel can in no way speak to a superior angel.

Gregory of Nazianzus was amused by any who would insistently hold "God to be a male" which he regarded as a misplaced analogy.

"One of the laws of nature, Gordon said, is that half the people have got to be below average. For a Gaussian distribution, yeah, Cooper said. Sad, though."

Bad fiction uses the glossy generality; good writing needs the smattering of detail, the unrelenting busy mystery of the real.

I make no apologies for you. After all, each one of us is little more than the meager residue of the infinite unrealized possibilities of our lives.

Writing is not a profession, occupation or job; it is not a way of life: it is a comprehensive response to life.

Pardon my pants. I'm fresh from an axe murder.

Cocky spilled a little of the tea on the folded towel Flynn had on the edge of the desk for just that purpose—for Cocky to spill on it. "That's lovely," said Flynn.