Ian St. John quote: "If I had been trying to take the job away from him in a sneaky, underhand manner, then I deserved all I got. But it was the other way around. I was trying to get him the job."

Well, he doesn't make me laugh. I think I've got a fair sense of humour but I can't real...
IAN ST. JOHN

Christ, he was paranoid about criticism. I used to say: why doesn't he worry about the team and ...
IAN ST. JOHN

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.
OLIVER ST. JOHN

If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?
OLIVER ST. JOHN

And apparently things like a Vindaloo curry are out for the rest of my life, or at least a long time...
LARA ST. JOHN

Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to...
LARA ST. JOHN

Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
LARA ST. JOHN

I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing e...
LARA ST. JOHN

Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they...
LARA ST. JOHN

Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be som...
LARA ST. JOHN

I thought that maybe it is not so much, as he seems to think, that the world loses interest in femal...
LARA ST. JOHN

There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
LARA ST. JOHN

Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get ...
LARA ST. JOHN

Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.
LARA ST. JOHN

For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
LARA ST. JOHN

Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ...
LARA ST. JOHN

When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag.
LARA ST. JOHN

There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or ...
LARA ST. JOHN

The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the...
LARA ST. JOHN

Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, t...
LARA ST. JOHN

I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having mu...
LARA ST. JOHN

Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions.
LARA ST. JOHN

Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop o...
LARA ST. JOHN

I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.
LARA ST. JOHN

What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popu...
LARA ST. JOHN

The only menace is inertia.
ST. JOHN PERSE

Laughter does not seem to be a sin, but it leads to sin.
ST. JOHN CHRYSOSATOM

Charity is the scope of all God's commands.
ST. JOHN CHRYSOSATOM

Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812 I hear no...
ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM

When we once begin to form good resolutions, God gives us every opportunity of carrying them out.
ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM

Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 Humility is the ...
ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM

However, the thought hit me that this was a pretty pathetic way to kick the bucket - being accidenta...
LARA ST. JOHN

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
HENRY ST. JOHN

Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him.
LARA ST. JOHN

A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly d...
LARA ST. JOHN

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
HENRY ST JOHN

When I'm acting, I like to think of myself as a non-actor, and a non-drummer when I'm drummi...
TREVOR ST. JOHN

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
ST. JOHN CHRYSOSATOM

In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
LEE ST. JOHN

Jazz music and, more specifically, jazz musicians, are my artistic heroes. I want to be the Thelonio...
TREVOR ST. JOHN

I graduated from a place called Whitworth College in Spokane with a theater degree, then in 1993 I m...
TREVOR ST. JOHN

...stooping very low, He engraves with care
His Name, indelible, upon our dust;
And from t...
PATRICIA ST. JOHN

In my South, the most treasured things passed down from generation to generation are the family reci...
ROBERT ST. JOHN

The truth that you are in charge of your life will set you free only after it really irritates you.
SKY ST. JOHN

What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion and understated erotica that popul...
LARA ST. JOHN

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed. [Lat., Facito aliquid ...
ST. JOHN HONEYWOOD

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
ST. JOHN HONEYWOOD

When Darby saw the setting sun He swung his scythe, and home he run, Sat down, drank off his q...
ST. JOHN HONEYWOOD

Every man...should periodically be compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him. To...
ST. JOHN ERVINE

Every day the church here (in Antioch] feeds 3000 people. Besides this, the church daily helps provi...
ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM

We religious leaders need to look very much more deeply. We can so easily have talks with people, an...
ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM

Let us pardon those who have wronged us. For that which others scarcely accomplish -- I mean the blo...
ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM

Ascension A comprehended god is no god.
ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM

Seeing, then, it is no longer the fisherman, the son of Zebedee, but He who knoweth "the deep things...
ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM

My final historical romance came out December 2005. While I enjoyed writing medieval romances, I was...
TINA ST. JOHN

He pinpointed Helen immediately, despite so many women—all dressed in somber mourning attire—aga...
BECCA ST. JOHN

From a writer's standpoint, each character and story presents its own unique challenges and deli...
TINA ST. JOHN

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasu...
HENRY ST. JOHN

I didn't go out for a soap until I moved to New York. I wasn't even considering soaps, but m...
TREVOR ST. JOHN

When I came to see you
It hurt me how thin you had become

In the months of addiction...
DAVID ST. JOHN

What the heart gives away is never gone…It is kept in the hearts of others forever.
ROBIN ST. JOHN

Cunning . . . is but the low mimic of wisdom.
HENRY ST. JOHN BOLINGBROKE

His spiritual life has been exaggerated by a chronic attack of mental gallstones.
OLIVER ST. JOHN GOGARTY

If you are the light, if your enemies are darkness, then there’s nothing that you cannot justify. ...
EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL

The more we know about the former world, the better we’ll understand what happened when it fell.
EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL

Hell is the absence of the people you long for.
EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL

You told me you’re trying to shed your possessions or something, right?” “Exactly. They’re l...
EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL

It was gorgeous and claustrophobic. I loved it and I always wanted to escape.
EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL

I'm just curious, how'd you get into this line of work?"

"Gradually, and then suddenly
EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL

The dignity of history.
HENRY ST. JOHN BOLINGBROKE

I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, that history is philosophy ...
HENRY ST. JOHN BOLINGBROKE

His spiritual life has been exaggerated by a chronic attack of mental gallstones.
OLIVER ST. JOHN GOGARTY

Jeevan’s understanding of disaster preparedness was based entirely on action movies, but on the ot...
EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL

But in come canine Paradise Your wraith, I know, rebukes the moon, And quarters every plain an...
ST. JOHN WELLES LUCAS

The king stood in a pool of blue light, unmoored.
EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL

Clark observa a actividade nocturna na pista, os aviões que estão parados à vinte anos, o reflexo...
EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL

Há dinheiro, pedaços de papel que podem ser trocados por qualquer coisa: casas, barcos, dentes per...
EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL

- OK, suponhamos que vai à copa - disse ela -, e duas pessoas que quem gosta estão lá, suponhamos...
EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL

He has no interest in comics. He doesn’t understand the difference between serious graphic novels ...
EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL

If nothing else, it's pleasant to consider the possibility. He likes the thought of ships moving ove...
EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL

He wished he could somehow go back and find the iPhone people whom he'd jostled on the sidewalk earl...
EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL

The beauty of this world where almost everyone was gone. If hell is other people, what is a world wi...
EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL

The scars of others should teach us caution.
ST. JEROME

They talk like angels but they live like men.
ST. JEROME

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
ST. JEROME

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
ST. JEROME

Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in t...
ST. JEROME

Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
ST. JEROME

Virginity can be lost by a thought.
ST. JEROME

Haste is of the Devil.
ST. JEROME

Whirlyball is only the most awesome sport on the planet! It's like bumper cars plus lacrosse mee...
ST. VINCENT

The Lilith Fair thing was Bummer Town - hey, hop aboard the marginalizing train. I guess you had peo...
ST. VINCENT

The golden age is before us, not behind us.
ST. SIMON

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
ST. JEROME

Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
ST AUGUSTINE

Prayer is a groan.
ST. JEROME

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love becau...
ST. BERNARD

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or ...
ST. BERNARD

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy re...
ST. BASIL

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
ST. EVERMOND

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
ST. BASIL

Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
ST. BERNARD

It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is...
ST. BERNARD

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
ST. JEROME

A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; he who plants kindness, gathers l...
ST. BASIL

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
ST. BERNARD

Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of nec...
ST. BASIL

The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
ST. BERNARD

Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
ST. JEROME

Lord, Make me chaste, but not yet
ST. AUGUSTINE

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
ST. JEROME

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
ST. AUGUSTINE

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof t...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Punishment is justice for the unjust.
ST. AUGUSTINE

The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
ST. AUGUSTINE

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for ...
ST. BASIL

God will not suffer man to have the knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his p...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
ST. AUGUSTINE

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
ST. JEROME

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive ...
ST. JEROME

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
ST. JEROME

In regards to being a fashion aficionado, there's a certain amount of taking yourself seriously ...
ST. VINCENT

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
ST. JEROME

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
ST. JEROME

I am like the sick sheep that strays from the rest of the flock. Unless the Good Shepherd takes me o...
ST. JEROME

I grew up around a lot of various religions, so it's a part of my consciousness in a way. Everyt...
ST. VINCENT

I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet f...
ST. JEROME

A song has a life of its own. It's an autonomous thing, separate from your own experience, almos...
ST. VINCENT

My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the pr...
ST. JEROME

Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something...
ST. VINCENT

I love so many songs from the '80s, but I'm obliged to the big ones.
ST. LUCIA

Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bis...
ST. AUGUSTINE

If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language: fo...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Thou hast commanded, and so it is, that every inordinate affection should be its own punishment.
ST. AUGUSTINE

The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
ST. AUGUSTINE

Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433 One can say: "I will, but my body does not ob...
ST. AUGUSTINE

God is not a deceiver, that he should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should s...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Wonderful is the depth of thy words, whose surface is before us, gently leading on the little ones: ...
ST. AUGUSTINE

God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastin...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 The truth is neither mi...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 But when does flesh receive the bread which He ...
ST. AUGUSTINE

What is Christ's joy in us, but that He deigns to rejoice on our account? And what is our Joy, which...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Picture God as saying to you, "My son, why is it that day by day you rise, and pray, and genuflect, ...
ST. AUGUSTINE

My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan go...
ST. VINCENT

The first city I ever came to in the states was Des Moines. I was 12 and was in a boys' choir.
ST. LUCIA

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
ST. AUGUSTINE

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
ST. JEROME

The friendship that can cease has never been real.
ST. JEROME

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
BERNARD ST.

I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking a...
ST. VINCENT

Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completel...
ST. VINCENT

Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues grat...
ST. JEROME

I'm supportive of women, absolutely, and it's so gratifying to have girls come up and say, &...
ST. VINCENT

Troubles are usually brooms and shovels that smooth the road to the good man's fortune; and many a m...
ST. BASIL

What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.
ST. JEROME

And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, rig...
ST. VINCENT

I feel like when you're in your late teens and early 20s, you just don't think about certain...
ST. LUCIA

If you want to build a ship
don’t herd people together to collect wood
and don’t assig...
ST. EXUPERY

No one is too big to be courteous, but some are too little
ST. BASIL

I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams.
ST. VINCENT

It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is...
BERNARD, ST.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love becau...
BERNARD, ST.

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
BERNARD, ST.

Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
BERNARD, ST.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or ...
BERNARD, ST.

The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
BERNARD, ST.

Nothing can work me damage except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never a...
BERNARD, ST.

I just believe that everybody has concerns and is interested in the educational process,
ST. AMBROSE

Where Peter is, there must be the Church
ST. AMBROSE

There is no time of life past learning something.
ST. AMBROSE

Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
BERNARD ST.

I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow.
ST. VINCENT

St. Lucia in South Africa is this exotic place where you might go on vacation, and it evokes this no...
ST. LUCIA

Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin. All hope consists in confes...
ST. ISADORE

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
ST. JEROME

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
ST. AUGUSTINE

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
ST. AUGUSTINE

People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long course...
ST. AUGUSTINE

At the resurrection the substance of our bodies, however disintegrated, will be united. We must not ...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bi...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Of this I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time. Now the end o...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 Thou lovest, without passion; art jealous, wit...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 What art Thou then, my God? What, but the Lor...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624 It is not that we keep His commandments f...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 None can become fit for the future life, who h...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200 We need not despair of any man, s...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Whoever has Christ in his heart, so that no earthly or temporal things -- not even those that are le...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 Ye have enemies; for who can live on this earth...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739 Other sins find their ...
ST. AUGUSTINE

When the will abandons what is above itself and turns to what is lower, it becomes evil -- not becau...
ST. AUGUSTINE

But when does flesh receive the bread which He calls His flesh? The faithful know and receive the Bo...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
ST. JEROME

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
ST. JEROME

Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless.
ST. JEROME

Quick enough, if good enough.
ST. JEROME

Never look a gift horse in the mouth!
ST. JEROME

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting
ST. JEROME

Hypocrite reader - my fellow - my brother!
ST. JEROME

If I had been trying to take the job away from him in a sneaky, underhand manner, then I deserved all I got. But it was the other way around. I was trying to get him the job.

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If I had been trying to take the job away from him in a sneaky, underhand manner, then I deserved all I got. But it was the other way around. I was trying to get him the job.

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