Feast of All Saints What changed these very ordinary men (who were such cowards that they did not dare stand too near the cross in case they got involved) into heroes who would stop at nothing? A swindle? Hallucination? Spooky nonsense in a darkened room? Or Somebody quietly doing what He said He'd do -- walk right through death? What do YOU think?


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J. B. BOSSUET
I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' ...
J. B. PRIESTLEY
I loved Peter Sellers. I thought he was the perfect mix of physical comedy with out-of-the-box humor...
J. B. SMOOVE
When I first started doing comedy years ago, I used to be the biggest Michael Richards fan. I used t...
J. B. SMOOVE
I try to dress smooth, I try to keep my face shaved, I try to keep my head cut. I try to do all the ...
J. B. SMOOVE
What happens in improv is you create your own storyline.
J. B. SMOOVE
I should be European, man. I'm long and lean. I'd look good in a trench coat.
J. B. SMOOVE
Just because one happens to be wealthy, it doesn't mean you are naturally any good at building a...
J. B. PRITZKER
We plan, we toil, we suffer in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Rad...
J. B. PRIESTLEY
If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I ...
J. B. PRIESTLEY
So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy re...
J. B. S. HALDANE
To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. The extreme socialis...
J. B. S. HALDANE
My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we *can*...
J. B. S. HALDANE
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far t...
J. B. S. HALDANE
I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on alm...
J. B. S. HALDANE
Einstein - the greatest Jew since Jesus. I have no doubt that Einstein's name will still be remember...
J. B. S. HALDANE
A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
J. B. S. HALDANE
I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good perso...
J. B. S. HALDANE
The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles.
J. B. S. HALDANE
Now my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we c...
J. B. S. HALDANE
Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as ex...
J. B. S. HALDANE
If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear t...
J. B. S. HALDANE
It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can i...
J. B. S. HALDANE
If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically ...
J. B. S. HALDANE
I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics ...
J. B. S. HALDANE
Human half-truth logic, dates back to Adam and Eve, when he tried to deceive God with a truth, 'we k...
CAESAR J. B. SQUITTI
Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than are the classics.
J. B. S. HALDANE
I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
B. B. KING
I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided ...
B. B. KING
I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on ...
B. B. KING
I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown o...
B. B. KING
Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high sc...
B. B. KING
Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: A...
B. B. KING
I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are Go...
B. B. KING
The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit asha...
B. B. KING
My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I w...
B. B. KING
Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I&...
B. B. KING
I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, b...
B. B. KING
Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you...
B. B. KING
Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
B. B. KING
I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wa...
B. B. KING
Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's...
B. B. KING
I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
B. B. KING
The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
B. B. KING
Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. KING
If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me...
B. B. KING
Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
B. B. KING
People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never di...
B. B. KING
We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING
I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING
Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. Wh...
B. B. KING
If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary ...
B. B. WARFIELD
I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I u...
B. B. KING
Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
B. B. KING
I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Er...
B. B. KING