“But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open.”
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
James describing his near-death experience.
Source: [Bures, Frank, Aliens, Anomalies, and Absurbity at Mt. Adams, The Portland Mercury, September 2001, http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Content?oid=25334&category=34029, 2007-03-01]
“But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open.”
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
Werner Erhard (1935) Critical Thinker and Author
Interview with William Warren Bartley, cited in [Bartley, William Warren, w:William Warren Bartley, Werner Erhard: the Transformation of a Man: the Founding of est, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1978, New York, 118, 0-517-53502-5]
“See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.”
Thomas More (1478–1535) English Renaissance humanist
On ascending the platform to his execution, as quoted in History of England (1856-1870) by James Anthony Froude
Alan Grayson (1958) American politician
"Grayson Has No Plans to Pull His Verbal Punches", Orlando Sentinet, October 30, 2009, http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_politics/2009/10/grayson-no-plans-to-tone-down-the-verbal-strikes.html. <br class="br">2009, Regarding himself
“Open wide my door, my Lord, to whatever makes me love You more.”
C-Minor.
Brother, Sister (2006)