A. D. Gordon Quotes

The secret of good writing is telling the truth.

The only thing better than living on a Mac is living in Hogwarts.

While flying with several other USAF pilots over Germany in 1957, we sighted numerous radiant flying discs above us. We couldn't tell how high they were. We couldn't get anywhere near their altitude.

Prayer is repeating the victor's name (Jesus) into the ears of Satan and insisting on his retreat.

Nothing in life is more exciting and rewarding than the sudden flash of insight that leaves you a changed person .

I find it more than a little disingenuous to act as if keeping slaves was something that set Thomas Jefferson apart from all mankind.

History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.

The relationship between [John] Adams and [Tomas] Jefferson was extraordinary. They differed on every conceivable issue, except on the Revolution and the love of their country.

Faith is blind...to impossibilities and deaf to doubt. It listens only to God.

A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body.

Are these perilous times? They are. But we can have peace in our hearts and in our homes.

Good strong banks are essential for every family and for every business in the country and extraordinary times call for the bold and far-reaching solutions that the Treasury has announced today.

Chefs don't do ponytails and we shouldn't do them because I guarantee that whenever there's a discovery of hair in the food, it's guaranteed it's from the chef's ponytail.

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life

The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine.

Radio continues to be the very best advertising music performers have. No one who ever grabbed a Grammy got there without radio.

I see only adaptations - not revolutions.

I'm just another link in the chain.

I do find a certain fascination with the unpredictable. The transitory years we wade through are what they are- what we make of them.

I have always felt as though I needed a weapon against evil.

I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.

The discipline that is needed in our lives is the discipline that comes from within.

As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.

It's not a testosterone-driven industry any longer. Success is making money, not in the size of the airline.

Don't make the kinds of mistakes that will bring regret.

A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.

The soul should be examined in the light of other souls.

We all ended up somewhere with our various uncertain lives flapping about us in tatters and our pockets full of foreign coins.

Cooking a dish is fine; cooking it under pressure is a completely different ballgame.

It is the great work of nature to transmute sunlight into life. So it is the great end of Christian living to transmute the light of truth into the fruits of holy living.

Look for the Sunlight through the Clouds.

Get up early in the morning before everybody has breathed up all the good air.

To have a little recognition, that is very nice, you dig. It is good for the ego, for the psyche.

Focus on your customers and make that restaurant synonymous to where you are in terms of area.

The great charm of fly-fishing is that we are always learning.

In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them.

Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a lightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat.

To be somebody, you must last.

I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe! jump of a bridge.

May they rest in eternal peace.

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

God will always make a way where there is no way.

Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.

Two key ingredients in any successful chef: a quick learner and someone with a sharp brain.

It was very interesting time to be in England. Even at that point [John] Lennon and [Paul] McCartney influenced my writing. I thought, "maybe there is a huck or two in here I haven't thought of".

Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate

Optimism is a competitive advantage.

We never have 100 percent certainty. We never have it. If you wait until you have 100 percent certainty, something bad is going to happen on the battlefield.

Keep your families close together, and love and honor your children.