Blink Quote by Bob Costas

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

— Mark Twain

Irreverence is a way of playing hooky and remaining present at the same time.

— Mary Ruefle

I may be revered or defamed and decried; But I tried to live my life right.

— Tracy Chapman

I became something I had no name for in solitude and only later discovered the word for what I was and realized there were…

— Anonymous

The world went on, as it does, without my full participation, and I only woke up from the reverie when someone said my name.

— John Green

The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.

— Anonymous

I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say…

— Rickie Lee Jones

My parents reverted to their Catholic faith through the charismatic renewal, so I was raised charismatic.

— Regina Doman

“Do you really want to know where we come from?" she said. "In every century, in every country, they'll call us something different. They'll…

— Brenna Yovanoff

When I felt that fame - people were nosing me out - well, I moved on. I used traveling names; wigs if necessary.

— Joni Mitchell

I was deeply influenced by an Episcopal laywoman named Agnes Sanford, who in her day was quite famous as a faith healer, which is…

— Frederick Buechner

Changing my name has been like a formal rite of passage.

— Anohni