Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: May 29, 1874 - June 14, 1936

Topics

GodRedBlackFierceWhiteSaid

Sometimes, discomfort is very uncomfortable. Anybody can get occasionally tired of it, and then it can change fast, where it's comfort that disturbs you.

Jim Harrison

ChangeTiredUncomfortableYouFast

I would give the people of America to their first opportunity to elect a president who doesn't belong to either party since George Washington.

Jesse Ventura

OpportunityPeopleAmericaParty

Our instinctual understanding of reality is the same as most other animals.

Robert Lanza

RealityUnderstandingAnimalsSame

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.

Anna Quindlen

BeautyPoetryJoyWorldLittle

I find it inconceivable that we're meeting for five and a half days, and there isn't one moment on the agenda to deal with the greatest crisis we've ever had in the church since 1789.

Roger Mahony

MomentChurchFindMeetingCrisis

I say if you can find somebody you can make music with, that's a special thing, so you should try to keep it going.

Roscoe Mitchell

MusicYouFindSaySpecialTry

I don't ever take anything for granted. I know... people would kill for the opportunity to play on festival stages and whatnot.

Mija

OpportunityPeoplePlayKnowTake

The most frustrating thing to me is when I tell people I work on 'Friday Night Lights,' they'll say, 'Oh, I hear that's a really good show.' They never watched it.

Jason Katims

WorkGoodPeopleMeNightFriday

You always hear me talk about my two ladies: my wife and my dog.

Josh Segarra

DogWifeMeYouTalkAlways

I used to hate playing Seattle shows.

Chris Cornell

HateSeattlePlayingUsedShows

If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?

Branford Marsalis

SoundPointPlayingGoingLike

It's not that I don't take TV seriously. I take it very seriously. But I've got my priorities straight. Call it my extra gift. Without it, I would be devastated every day in Hollywood.

Bonnie Hunt

DayGiftPrioritiesEvery DayTake

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