“It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.”
Eddie Cantor, according to www.brainyquote.com/quotes/eddie_cantor_309843
“In all my life I have met only one person who claims to have seen a ghost. And the interesting thing about the story is that the person disbelieved in the immortal soul before she saw the ghost and still disbelieves after seeing it.”
Start of C.S. Lewis Miracles
“To be in a romance is to be in uncongenial surroundings. To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.”
“On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family,” in G.K. Chesterton Brave New Family
“The same sense of the relentlessly interwoven texture of human fate was touched by the schoolboy who said: ‘Dad, I hate war.’ ‘Why, son?’ ‘Because war makes history, and I hate history.’”
Marshall McLuhan Understanding Media
“The feeling of having taken a wrong turning in life was made worse by the fact that he could not, for the life of him, remember having taken any turnings at all.”
“Charles Fernyhough, writer”, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail June 11, 2010
“I am unbelievably lucky: a. to be an American; b. To have my wife, the world’s finest human; c. To have never been severely or at least life-threateningly ill; d. To have never been in combat; e. To have had loving, caring, prosperous parents; f. To have an interesting, well-paid career; g. To have great friends, a great sister, nephew, niece, cousins, and, above all, son; h. Above all, to have learned to love and worship a God of love and understanding.”
“Benjamin J. Stein’s Diary” on his 60th birthday in The American Spectator February 2005
“There is bad religion, just as there is bad cooking, bad art or bad sex...”
Karen Armstrong in the Ottawa Citizen “Citizen’s Weekly” May 12, 2002.
“It was Macaulay who remarked that it was not pleasant to live in times about which it was exciting to read.”
Marshall McLuhan Understanding Media