Decumanus Quotes & Sayings

They were large, even for the mus decumanus, which sometimes measures fifteen inches in length, — H.P. Lovecraft

Utilize your special skills to begin your own work. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I think umpires have too much power, without any system of checks and balances and the more money a player makes, the more the umpire tries to show off that power to him. Unfortunately, since I signed my contract my strike zone has suddenly become a lot larger. — Ozzie Smith

Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility. — Olympe De Gouges

Took awhile, got the jokers out of the deck now, I'm holdin all the cards and niggas wanna play chess now — Drake

Piper- I didn't like Mr. Wilder.
Eliza- He's not so bad, Piper, if you overlook his tendency to be condescending.
Agatha- And narrow-minded and chauvinistic.
Gloria- I think a nice cup of tea is in order before we continue our discussion of Mr. Wilder and his many faults. May I suggest we make ourselves comfortable in the parlor? — Jen Turano

I am you; you are ME. You are the waves; I am the ocean. Know this and be free, be divine. — Sathya Sai Baba

When we read, even if the characters are tragic or sad or disturbing, these are our brothers and sisters in the human family. — Julia Alvarez

Despair makes victims sometimes victors. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Mrs. Palmer, in her way, was equally angry. She was determined to drop his acquaintance immediately, and she was very thankful that she had never been acquainted with him at all. She wished with all her heart Combe Magna was not so near Cleveland; but it did not signify, for it was a great deal too far off to visit; she hated him so much that she was resolved never to mention his name again, and she should tell everybody she saw, how good-for-nothing he was. — Jane Austen

And some go the other way, the most lethal way of all: when the pressure gets to be too much, it's not their nerve that breaks, it's their fear. They lose the capacity to be afraid, even when they should be. These can't ever go home again. They're like those First World War airmen, the finest ones, shining in their recklessness and invincible, who got home and found that home had no place for what they were. Some people are undercovers all the way to the bone; the job has taken them whole. — Tana French

Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. — George Eliot

Oh well, when I was younger I was known for breaking hearts. I am the kind of person that falls passionately in love but then a couple of months down the line, I fall out of love. — Jenna Jameson

The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself. — Thomas Carlyle

I remember someone saying to my mom that it must be so glamorous to have a child acting in movies. They had no idea how hard it was for her. — Douglas Booth