Calixte Dakpogan Quotes & Sayings

So although there is no phoenix here, there is, nonetheless, a fierce, stubborn, wildly insightful, arrogantly honest, crazily committed, and caring human, who will take the heat, the brunt of whatever silver spoon joke you may have, so I can help you have everything you want in your life. And I mean everything. — Lauren Handel Zander

Comedy and horror are cousins; they're related. They both come from storytellers who want to specifically affect the audience and elicit specific reactions during the movie. — Jason Reitman

At the level of their biochemistry, the barrier between bacteria and complex cells barely exists. — Nick Lane

Tinsley felt like a puppeteer playing with her marionettes, holding all the strings. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

I think of a person I haven't seen or thought of for years, and ten minutes later I see her crossing the street. I turn on the radio to hear a voice reading the biblical story of Jael, which is the story that I have spent the morning writing about. A car passes me on the road, and its license plate consists of my wife's and my initials side by side. When you tell people stories like that, their usual reaction is to laugh. One wonders why.
I believe that people laugh at coincidence as a way of relegating it to the realm of the absurd and of therefore not having to take seriously the possibility that there is a lot more going on in our lives than we either know or care to know. Who can say what it is that's going on? But I suspect that part of it, anyway, is that every once and so often we hear a whisper from the wings that goes something like this: You've turned up in the right place at the right time. You're doing fine. Don't ever think that you've been forgotten. — Frederick Buechner

Our technology forces us to live mythically — Marshall McLuhan

One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune. — Boethius

Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself. — George Eliot

Politically speaking, ours is an age of the pygmies. — Tony Judt

Genetic evolutionists warn that if we fail to apply the lessons of our shared genetic destiny, which should be teaching us the importance of cooperation among all species, we threaten human existence. — Bruce H. Lipton

I love anything vintage. And I love Marc Jacobs and shoes by Giuseppe Zanotti. — Meagan Good

No woman could have inflicted the blows with any weapon. — Edgar Allan Poe