I’m always switching out my masthead quotes. When they disappear from the main page, look for them here.
“Speak softly, drive a Sherman tank / Laugh hard, it’s a long way to the bank.”–They Might Be Giants, “Rhythm Section Want Ad,” Then: the Earlier Years.
“This is the one life / These are the passing days / I don’t want to look back and see I’ve wasted [them]“–Andrew Osenga, “The Ball Game,” Letters to the Editor, Vol 1.
“The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that cannot read them.”–Mark Twain.
“A good Booke is the pretious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalm’d and treasur’d up on purpose to a life beyond life.”–John Milton, Areopagitica.
“When money talks, I hate to listen…”–Ben Folds, “Emaline,” Ben Folds Live.
“The prodigals are still Your sons.” –Andrew Osenga, “Photograph,” Photographs.
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”–William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
“Time was never money.” –Switchfoot, “Gone,” Beautiful Letdown
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”–Annie Dillard
“Life is meant to bring a succession of discoveries of our need for Christ”–Miles J. Stanford
“Talk to God and listen to the casual reply. Rocky Mountain high, Colorado.” John Denver, “Rocky Mountain High.”
“Dream, little darling. Dream.” Dave Matthews Band, “You Never Know” Busted Stuff
“For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.” T.S. Eliot, The Four Quartets
“Oh, to grace how great a debtor daily I’m constrained to be!” Robert Robinson, “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing”
“Only the curious have something to find.” Nickel Creek, “This Side” This Side
