Quotes tagged ‘The Bible’

“Anything that can be upgraded, like an iPhone, ends up in the bin, only to be replaced by a more expensive model. The Bible has endured for a very long time, and its value has changed a little, if at all. Because it can't be upgraded.”

— Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello, Stefano Bises, Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, John Malkovich, imdb.com

“Magnet: Hey. Maybe it’ll rain for 40 days and 40 nights, like it did in The Bible. Armpit: Yeah, maybe we’ll have to build an ark. Squid: We’ll get two of every animal... X-Ray: Yeah, two scorpions, two rattlesnakes, two yellow spotted lizards all that.”

— Louis Sachar, José "Magnet", Miguel Castro, imdb.com

“[unprompted] I believe it was Moses who brought the Ten Condiments.”

— David Byrne, imdb.com

“People were forced into sexual relationships - or often raped - by others merely because of a humanly constructed social status. If that was Paul's perception of homosexuality, there is no surprise that he would condemn it. Looking at people as property is wrong. Rape is wrong. Feeling obligated to…”

— Jacob Geers, amazon.com

“Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.”

— Mark Twain, amazon.com

“After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.”

— Mark Twain, amazon.com

“There was a reason the church was the main cultural unifier in Western Europe: it had the best distribution network and the most mass-produced item— the Bible.”

— David Shields, amazon.com