Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.

Now the essence the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so and lo it presently turns out to be so.

Any man today who returns from work sinks into a chair and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.

A revival does two things. First it returns the Church from her backsliding and second it causes the conversion of men and women and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!

Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right he turns legit.

You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

Strange is it not? That of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through Not one returns to tell us of the Road Which to discover we must travel too.

Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set I go into the other room and read a book.

When I was a teen I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.

Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.

The Internet will win because it is relentless. Like a cannibal it even turns on it own. Though early portals like Prodigy and AOL once benefited from their first-mover status competitors surpassed them as technology and consumer preferences changed.

Refuse to accept the belief that your professional relevance career success or financial security turns on the next update on the latest technology. Sometimes it's good to put the paddle down and just let the canoe glide.

Rag paper containing hemp fiber is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet but returns to its full strength when dry.

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged the problem is not just inside the kid it's also in the system the society.

Before I do anything I think well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

As it turns out what looks like science sometimes is not.

It turns out that understanding the British public is not rocket science. The British appreciate honesty and they also have a bonkers off-the-wall sense of humour like me.

Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything what science cannot know cannot be real.

I know it's hard to blame the time but there's a bit of an expectation for a summer movie. I think that 'Superman Returns' was a bit nostalgic and romantic and I don't think that was what people were expecting especially in the summer.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people and can irritate me too.

Where you have no religion you are sure to have no government for as religion disappears anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.