quotes about Mary Jane

“By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!”

“Prohibiting a visible religious sign, which isn't a manifestation of militancy, would look like a fight against religions.”

“That's why Black Lives Matter thinks I'm so great. The fact of the matter is that everything is consciousness. This conversation is important.”

Source : Source: time.com

“Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on.”

“I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.”

Source : "God Dies". Essay by Frances Farmer, 1931.

“I wake up every morning and thank God I live in a country where all of this is possible. Where you have the Yankee ingenuity to roll up your sleeves, get a band of people who believe in something and go for it and make it happen. It doesn't happen anywhere else.”

“I wanted to show off - a simple impulse or drive; in much the same way as some kids wanted to play football, I wanted to show off. Not complicated in that sense, very natural; it just depends on how you want to show off.”

“You perform the thing that you made, that's inside of you, and to subject that to any kind of scrutiny is terrifying. It's still terrifying to me.”

“One social evil for which the New Testament is clearly in part responsible is anti-Semitism.”

Source : Steve Allen (1990). “Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, & Morality”, Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books

“I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.”