Darryl Pinckney Quotes

The city - as the theater of experience, the refuge, the hiding place - has, in turn, been replaced by an abstraction, the fast lane. In the fast lane, the passive observer reduces everything - streets, people, rock lyrics, headlines - to landscape. Every night holds magical promises of renewal. But burnout is inevitable, like some law of physics.

Darryl Pinckney

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ExperiencePeopleCityLawNight

The individual who signs the check has the ultimate power.

Jerry Rubin

PowerSignsIndividualCheckWho

I hate how spiritual formation gets positioned as an optional pursuit for a small special interest group within the church.

John Ortberg

HateSpiritualSmallChurchGroup

Instead of the traditional emphasis on the sanctity of life, bioethics began to stress the quality of life, meaning that many damaged humans, young and old, don't qualify for personhood because their lives have lost value.

John Leo

LifeQualityStressValueMeaning

Since Franklin Roosevelt's leadership in setting up the United Nations and the Nuremberg trials, the U.S. has promoted universal legal norms and the institutions to enforce them while seeking, by hook or by crook, to exempt American citizens, especially soldiers, from their actual application.

Michael Ignatieff

LeadershipLegalAmericanTrialsUp

When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics.

Stephen R. George

WritingReadingThoughtSeriouslyUp

I'm definitely driven to go as far as I can.

Robert Whittaker

I CanGoDrivenFarDefinitely

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

Jean Arp

LifeTechnologyDayManSilence

As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my 'farm chores' - but I had time also to be alone, to explore the fields, woods and creek side. And to read.

Joyce Carol Oates

GirlAloneTimeWoodsFarmYoung

I once dated a weather girl, we talked up a storm.

Jay London

GirlStormWeatherUpOnceTalked

At a music hall, I'll get upset if someone coughs or if someone's cellphone goes off.

Joshua Bell

MusicSomeoneUpsetGetOffGoes

Remember, Obama was elected by a bigger margin than George W. Bush. He deserves to have his appointees, and he deserves to have votes on the issues, to have the government function, and to fight for the policies on which he was elected.

Donna Brazile

GovernmentFightRememberBiggerHe

If love alone could cure our children, they would always be well.

Debbie Reynolds

LoveAloneChildrenAlwaysWellOur

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