"Imagine the people walking by, staring at you, throwing bubble gum wrappers at you, Dr. Pepper cans, Budweiser cans. You know, if you're lying there every day, that's over a year! People would get a little tired of it..." < more>

"Could we with ink the ocean fill, And were the skies of parchment made, Were ev'ry stalk on earth a quill, And ev'ry man a scribe by trade; To write the love of God above Would drain the ocean dry; Nor could the scroll contain the whole, Tho' stretch'd from sky to sky..." < more>

"Well, there used to be these old pagan Indians on our place and their spirits are still haunting it..." < more>

"The come-on was, 'Have a tribe; don't be a little-bitty house over there. Let's go get the big things going...!'" < more>

"The pope had to go home without a Sikh gift since representatives of that faith had declined the offer to meet the pope when the Secret Service barred them from wearing their... swords anywhere near the pontiff..." < more>

"The economic downturn has done little, if anything, to dampen this enthusiasm among students, who say that what they learn in class can translate into practical skills and careers..." < more>

"This isn't as strange a notion as it sounds. Yes, there was John F. Kennedy ...But ... Kennedy sought to divorce his religion from his office..." < more>

"What even my own family has a hard time understanding about me is I like being a hobo, always heading into a new adventure. If anything, my return to Chicago a year ago has been difficult..." < more>

"A prime directive of Greek myth was to honor and be generous to strangers, for no one could be certain just who was human and who might be a god in disguise..." < more>

"The nothern kingdom apostatized more than the southern kingdom, and for almost 300 years, there was civil strife..." < more>

"While yoga classes throughout the nation have been letting dogs join their companions of the mat, 'doga' offers yoga from a dog's perspective..." < more>

"I simply didn't want to risk having to spend yet another bone-chiller in the flattened-out back of... 'Lisa's Homeless Shelter'..." < more>

"There are cactuses and fruit trees, a health food shop, the oldest hardware store in town and a [...] five-foot tall sculpture of a phallus..." < more>

"Once he came to its headquarters, serfs returfed the brown parched weeds and laid down a blanket of fresh green grass just so his eyes would not be disturbed by unsightly faded patches..." < more>

"If it comes to religious topics everything is already said. I am an agnostic, so I don't learn anything from them..." < more>

"In addition to the humongous metal-crafted worship tents and main auditorium, there's the Beach Cafe, Terrace Cafe, Baptismal Pool, Prayer Garden, Children's Building, Nursery Building, Student Zone, Green Room, Plaza, on and on. Shuttles cart people back and forth from the parking lots..." < more>

"Just yesterday, jogging on the beach in Corona Del Mar and watching the waves hitting the beautiful dark jagged rocks along the shore line, I thought, 'How could you get any better than having one of these houses here on the cliff overlooking all this...?'" < more>

"The reason I invited them both, first, they'll tell you the truth. They're not just going to beat around the bush. They'll tell you what they believe..." < more>

"We can remake this world as it should be. Believe in me, and I shall redeem not just you but your country -- nay, we can become a hymn that will heal this nation, repair this world and make this time different from all the rest..." < more>

"There were authentic hat-wearing cowboys, native Mexicans in straw hats and even a guy in Wranglers jeans and a checkered, square-dancing-type shirt who looked a lot like President George W. Bush...!" < more>

"That was the month all the preachers bought Playboy. Yeah, sure. Of course, when Jimmy Swaggart got into trouble, all the preachers went out and bought Penthouse..." < more>

"...caption inserted at the bottom of the page explained that not only wouldn't [he] put his hand on his heart, he wouldn't give the Pledge of Allegiance..." < more>

"Yeah, nobody around here likes him... he didn't even carry this state when he was first elected..." < more>

"All that they meant was that ages before Zeus became an Eternal Almighty God in Greece, he had been a simple, old-fashioned Sun-king..." < more>

"I will not leave your soul in hell and your flesh shall not see corruption..." < more>

"What was unbelievable was seeing footage of women undergoing painful leg-lengthening procedures...to try and gain a foot or two in height...!" < more>

"Well, that just shows how far behind you are, fella, because those people knew that that was no snake talking to them anyway...!" < more>

"You used to be a good writer... This website of yours is a joke. It looks like all you're doing is quoting your pastor...!" < more>

"Notice how... it's all about the tantalizing of the five senses and the reverence of pomp and circumstance, beautiful buildings and colorfully garbed 'men of the cloth...'" < more>

"I've observed this through the years -- the closer you get to death the harder you try to prove you're not dying..." < more>

"'If that's what you say I am, that's what I am.' Then she booked it out of the place just like the dirty little thief she was..." < more>

"Newspaper columnist Ann Coulter was dead wrong the other month when she made headlines for saying on a cable news talk show that Christians were 'perfected Jews'..." < more>

"He says, 'You know, you come up with all the wrong answers. What have I ever asked of you...?!" < more>

"Micah had said, 'Bethlehem, you're a little hole in the wall over there and yet something great's gonna come from you...'" < more>

"Christmas represents not the birth of Christ, but is the time of His conception! His birth was actually in September...!" < more>

"The majority of people pass the Book off as simply being inspired in the same way, say, as William Shakespeare's tragedies, or Homer's Odyssey, or Mohammed's Koran, or Dante's Divine Comedies..." < more>

"Obviously tremendous pressure is being brought on these young men in a strange land to be like the system and go along with it. Every opportunity's being given them to do just that. These guys are up against it..." < more>

"'Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing,' referring to the robes..." < more>

"The w-o-r-d-s are important -- not just the phrases, not just the concepts, not just the ideas, not just the sense and flow. That's all important, but the words..." < more>

"A doctor can write down a phrase in Latin and know a hundred years from now it'll mean the same thing it does right now..." < more>

"'God' is a corrupt authority figure... whose mission is to control people and deny their free will. Lyra, a 12-year-old girl... winds up saving the world by conquering the all-powerful yet evil leader..." < more>

"Physical eating and drinking -- even of Christ's flesh and blood -- could not save a soul..." < more>

"When that city comes down and lands on Planet Earth and dwells there, it's done..." < more>

"They either leave it out completely or they put it in brackets, meaning they don't think it ought to be there but they don't have the courage of their convictions..." < more>

"I get a kick out of verse 29 because it's talking about looking upon a woman to lust and then it says 'If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out.' Doesn't your right eye and left eye go together? Mine do..." < more>

"Now, I can show you verse-for-verse how there's absolutely no way you've ever met anybody that obeyed that verse...!" < more>

"If you wanted knowledge from God, and you wanted to know what God's Word said, that priest of God was to preserve it and have it ready for you when you needed it..." < more>

"They didn't even smell like they'd been in the smoke... these guys were bound and the fire burns the ropes they were tied in but doesn't even singe their hair..." < more>

"She can be something a man never can be in that regard and every man that comes along look up to her. But she can also be exactly the opposite of that..." < more>

"They wouldn't bow, they wouldn't bend and they wouldn't burn. But see, they didn't know... yet that they wouldn't die..." < more>

"The guy's studying for an alibi to do whatever he wants to do... he wants an excuse... [to] do whatever he wants to do and have it be no problem..." < more>

"Augustine had this big convoluted doctrine of how to have a 'just war.' And the reason he did that is not so you can justify going into Iraq and bumping off Saddam Hussein. That wasn't it..." < more>

"They developed a totally desire-oriented life; oriented toward what they wanted and that only. Their self-consciousness became self-indulgence and selfishness..." < more>

"...And men who believe in ' mechanical dictation,' and what's called 'dynamic inspiration,' and all those other types of inspiration... they do so in order to ridicule..." < more>

"The idea of the stick is that when a person holds it, he/she commands the full attention of the group and everyone must listen..." < more>

"The one-eyed, one-armed flying purple people-eater... Well, there he is, right there. He's one-eyed, one-armed and he eats people..." < more>

"Out in the world they got a song, 'I only have eyes for you, hoochee-doo, hoochee-doo.' Well, that's what she had..." < more>

"I'm talking about when you send me a message, tap me on the shoulder and say you want to see me, wanting me to have an audience with you, and I just ignore you...?" < more>

"One of the greatest businesses to be in the world is school books because every 10 years you've got to rewrite the whole thing because you know more..." < more>

"'Whoa, we can't do that! That might be a success!' A guy actually said, 'He'll do it too! We gotta' stop him!' and they did, for good or bad..." < more>

"The way you become the conscience of a nation -- the way you have an impact on the nation -- is that you go out and understand they need to be transformed internally..." < more>

"I got nothing else; I don't need to do anymore. This is what I was doing it all for; I've arrived..." < more>

"By the way, what happened with Muhammad was he had significant Bible knowledge that was passed to him orally, but he didn't have a good memory or understanding..." < more>

"What's going to happen to you shouldn't happen to your worst enemy..." < more>

"The truth is, in this life, you're going to be upset at some point, and confronting life's stark and seductive realities is what turns you from a child to an adult..." < more>

"I'm waiting for you guys to say something and you won't say anything, and I've given you plenty of time, and you just sit there and you won't answer so now I'm going to talk..." < more>

"There's a moment in time when you were conceived and you began to exist prior to which you didn't exist..." < more>

"With Mark you see the royal ruler. Mark writes for the strong man; he writes for the person who's interested in power and in authority -- in getting the job done. .." < more>

"So, that night he goes down there and you're watching Boston Legal on TV and BOOM! You hear another explosion..." < more>

"...what they do is communicate on dozens of different frequencies, and the idea is if you can jam a third of the frequencies, the receiver can figure out from the other two-thirds what it needs..." < more>

"He's not rejoicing, 'Whoopee, I'm in jail again!' He's not saying, 'Whoopee, I'm on a sick bed again!' He's saying, 'In spite of the circumstances I've got something inside that causes me to rejoice...'" < more>

"Freud spent the rest of his life trying to prove that religion was just a repressed sex drive. And he's the guy where all you got to do is drop his name and everybody thinks, 'Oh, you're a real intellectual...'" < more>

"The beat, the rhythm was in the melody, which makes the melody something carrying your flesh, not your spirit..." < more>

"All of this has an exact science to it. Melodies run horizontally. Chords -- or the harmony -- run vertically. The chord is how you get your feelings affected..." < more>

"...I spoke as if my very heart was in love with God -- tender, personal love. If you were [there], you would have said, 'What hypocrisy...'" < more>

"And the activities, and the gyrations, were associated with people getting their clothes off and there's not really but one reason you take your clothes off..." < more>

"What does the agriculture, and the horticulture, and the Arts, and the industrialization and the mechanization of society, lead to...?" < more>

"You were born without purpose, you live without meaning, living is its own meaning. When you die, you are extinguished. From being you will be transformed to non-being..." < more>

"When I first moved to Chicago I used to go into the Loop and ask somebody if they knew where so-and-so street was and they always seemed to know right where it was whether they knew or not..." < more>