Alimrose Doll Quotes & Sayings

In [Bloom's] having managed to sustain his curiosity about the people and the world around him after thirty-eight years of familiarity and routine that ought to have dulled and dampened it; and above all in the abiding capacity for empathy, for moral imagination, that is the fruit of an observant curiosity like Bloom's, I found, as if codified, a personal definition of heroism.
Ulysses struck me, most of all, as a book of life; every sentence, even those that laid bare the doubt, despair, shame, or vanity of its characters, seemed to have been calibrated to assert, in keeping with the project of the work as a whole, the singularity and worth of even the most humdrum and throwaway of human days. Michael Chabon — Michael Chabon

It was then that my religious consciousness emerged to flower years afterward into definite forms of religious dancing in which there is no sense of division between spirit and flesh, religion and art. — Ruth St. Denis

It's been a strange [summer] ... I was sent by a magazine to photograph famous photographers ... Of course, I included myself. — Weegee

Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication. — Robert D. Putnam

This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which is the best grounded is profoundly disconcerting to all conservatives and to almost all revolutionaries. — Morris Raphael Cohen

A man's ideal woman is the one he couldn't get. — Helen Rowland

Blaming others doesn't certify your goodness. — Hina Hashmi

It's not when you start that makes your success in the world, but when you quit. — Richard Bach

We need to align the incentives so that colleges have an incentive to keep down their costs ... to graduate students on time with degrees in areas where they're going to be able to get jobs and going to be able to pay back those loans. — Elizabeth Warren

I must confess that most modern mysticism seems to me to be simply a method of imparting useless knowledge in a form that no one can understand — Oscar Wilde

When I walk between the rain drops, I never get wet.' Taken from ENEMY WITHIN, due out next year — Andrew Hixson

Just say the lines and don't trip over the furniture. — Noel Coward