Davis Quinton Quotes & Sayings

To be Catholic was to belong to an ethnic group, not a religion. You didn't really have to believe it, or act like you believed it, to be a Catholic. You just had to show up every week for Mass and go to Catholic school. — Carlene Bauer

A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. — Richard Flanagan

but because she had at once classed him in that catalogue of bipeds whom Plato endeavors to withdraw from the appellation of men, and whom Diogenes designated as animals upon two legs without feathers. Unfortunately, — Alexandre Dumas

How much better it would be, she thinks, if the world were ruled by chance and not a God. — Jenny Erpenbeck

But he could smirk at her - and wave too. A flicker of his right fingers and then a tapping of his right palm. — Susan Dennard

The Jews know who they are as a people. The Christians have not come together as a people yet. — Willie Aames

Human life is fiction's only theme. — Eudora Welty

I've come to realise that the best teachers never stop being teachers. — Kimberly Quinn

We should all develop the mind to rejoice in, praise and share in the gift of those who have artistic talents and a richness of heart, whether they achieve wide recognition or not. Cultivating such a beautiful mind is a very worthy effort. Culture and art are not just decorations. They are not just accessories. What matters is whether culture enriches the essential substance of our lives. — Daisaku Ikeda

One can only learn by teaching. — John Archibald Wheeler

I am part man, and I notice women's breasts and thighs with the calculation of a man choosing a mistress ... but that is the artist and the analytical attitude toward the female body ... for I am more a woman; even as I long for full breasts and a beautiful body, so do I abhor the sensuousness which they bring ... I desire the things which will destroy me in the end... — Sylvia Plath

War is the most striking instance of the failure of intelligence to master the problem of human relationships. — Harry Elmer Barnes

I don't go into my dentist and say, 'Are you gay?' I don't say to contestants on 'So You Think You Can Dance,' 'Are you gay?' What does it got to do with me? What does it got to do with anybody? — Nigel Lythgoe