“Not only must Justice be done; it must also be seen to be done.” from Rex v. Sussex, though I first heard it in the 1985 movie The Black Arrow, based on the Robert Louis Stevenson novel of the same name.
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Questioner: “How do you deal with writers block? Seinfeld: “Writer’s block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work.” from a recent AMA at Reddit.com
Pat Carroll, describing her attitude toward her characterization of Ursula in The Little Mermaid: “I (saw Ursula as this) ex-Shakespearean actress who now sold cars.” via Jim Hill Media
“Everything that looks different than the fires of hell is the result of common grace.”
“No verse of Scripture yields its meaning to lazy people.” —A.W. Pink
“There’s no rulebook in Haddon Robinson’s ‘Homiletics’ that says, ‘Thou shalt preach the entire flipping book or thou shalt be damned.’”
“They treat me like a fox, a cunning fellow (Schlaukopf) of the first rank. But the truth is that with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half.”
“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.”
“We snack on danger! We dine on death! And dead men don’t make money!”
“If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged.” –attributed to Richelieu, but not conclusively his.