Decuir Machine Quotes & Sayings

This was what Dennis had been doing lately: granting everyone permission to feel the way they were going to feel regardless. It was the books. Dennis's relationship to his own feelings had become tender, curatorial. Dismantling. Entomological. Mave couldn't be like that. She treated her emotional life the way she treated her car: She let it go, let it tough it out. To friends she said things like "I know you're thinking this looks like a '79, but it's really an '87." She finally didn't care to understand all that much about her emotional life; she just went ahead and did it. The point, she thought, was to attend the meager theater of it, quietly, and not stand up in the middle and shout, "Oh, my God, you can see the crew backstage!" There was a point at which the study of something became a frightening and naive thing. — Lorrie Moore

Jesus viewed his own destiny - to be glorified in and through death - as an expression of a kind of cosmic principle: the pathway to life runs through death. — John Ortberg

There's hardly anywhere in literature where you don't find a triangle. — Leonard Michaels

I tried to pay attention, but attention paid me. — Lil' Wayne

Since few people arrive at retirement with an understanding that this transition will involve a rethinking of who they are, an interim pattern has emerged, in which travel offers a way of fulfilling deferred daydreams of adventure while the next stage takes shape. [p. 31] — Mary Catherine Bateson

Lovers re-create the world. — Carter Heyward

It was an effort to include intelligent design and treat it as science, disparaging evolution along the way. That will not stand. — Barry W. Lynn

A model is a lie that helps you see the truth. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

No doctor is going to do an abortion on a live fetus. That doesn't happen. Doctors don't do that. If they do, they'll get their license pulled, as well they should. — Howard Dean

There is no law of physics that says just because we're connected, there has to be this schism between our physical lives and our digital lives. — Astro Teller