Boolin Quotes & Sayings

There seems also to be a tremendous risk to indigenous cultures if we insist that all scholarship be conducted in English. We are, for example, dealing with ancient and very highly-developed cultures in Korea, Japan, China and the Middle East. What is the impact on cultural and scholarly vitality forcing everyone to do their work in English? I do not have an answer, but this issue has been very much on my mind. — Henry Rosovsky

Your love intoxicates me into an intoxication of intoxicating intoxication. — Avijeet Das

Fall in light, grow in light. — Jeff Buckley

There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers that no one else knows either. — Robert Ardrey

The wild women in his lap,' my father enthused, 'laying their breasts on his head.'
There was a moment of stunned silence. Then my mother spoke slowly, with an edge to her voice. 'I think you mean "wild beasts laying their heads in his lap".'
'Do I? — Patrick Rothfuss

No child under the age of fifteen should receive instruction in subjects which may possibly be the vehicle of serious error, such as philosophy, religion, or any other branch of knowledge where it is necessary to take large views; because wrong notions imbibed early can seldom be rooted out, and of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to arrive at maturity. — Arthur Schopenhauer

There's a difference between failures and things that are bad. — Steven Soderbergh

This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours. — Jimmy Carter

From the beginning of a Christian's life to the end, the only reason he does not perish is because "the Lord was there." When — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The misery of sleep is beyond the understanding of men. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm well aware that I do not belong with the aristocracy."

"Yet here you are with an aristocrat."

"You and I both know, Your Grace, that marriage is not what you have in mind."

His eyes darkened as his gaze traveled from her upswept hair to the toes of her recently polished shoes. "No. Marriage is not what I have in mind. — Lorraine Heath

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself. — Allan Bloom

I'm not irreplaceable ... I'm nothing but grass growing on the ground; when the grass dies, another one replaces it ... — Chico Xavier

When you find it you become the secret addressee of a literary text and I felt that their reader had been left out of this experience of reading poetry or what the experience of poetry was. — Edward Hirsch