Dessima Person Quotes & Sayings

Scholars may contribute their knowledge or insight to public debate on important issues. They may contribute it in a form that is understandable to a policymaker, or even to the public, consistently with their duty of rigorous intellectual honesty. Scholars should not feel constrained to publish only turgid prose in obscure journals. They should not leave the public debate to those who feel no scruples whatever to conform their claims to the evidence. — Douglas Laycock

If the original Facebook was the first five minutes [of a conversation] and the stream was the next 15, what I want to show you today is the rest-the next few hours of a deep engaging conversation. — Mark Zuckerberg

About the whole mansion and domain there hung an atmosphere peculiar to themselves and their immediate vicinity - an atmosphere which had no affinity with the air of heaven, but which had reeked up from the decayed trees, and the gray wall, and the silent tarn - a pestilent and mystic vapor, dull, sluggish, faintly discernible, and leaden-hue — Edgar Allan Poe

There is only one emotion that I know of which has absolutely no place in spectator sport and death to it - laughter. — Rene Maheu

Zee said, grumpily, "Liebling, this is not a good idea."
"Zee," I told him, "I am completely out of good ideas and am doing my best with the bad ones I have left. — Patricia Briggs

I am in love with whatever is eccentric, devious, strange, singular, unique, out of this world-and with life as an incalculable, a chaotic thing, meaningful above and beyond the necessary and elemental data of my subject. — Marguerite Young

What glory can there be in the conquest of a mindless body? — Ayn Rand

If somebody's doing something, and you're laughing, and at the same time you're so embarrassed for them, it's my absolute kind of favorite type of laugh. — Melissa McCarthy

It's okay to get emotional. It's okay to cry--and this is key--as long as you can play hurt. — Megyn Kelly

I recognize myself for part of this mad world, I suppose. You wouldn't have me take it seriously? I should lose my reason utterly if I did; — Rafael Sabatini

All my integrity seemed to lie in saying No. — Susanna Kaysen

It was during George W. Bush's presidency that Iran mastered the nuclear fuel cycle, that they built covert facilities, that they stocked them with centrifuges, that they were spinning merrily away toward getting a nuclear-weapons program. — Hillary Clinton

The real trick is to let life, with all it's ordinary missteps and regrets, be consistently more mysterious and alluring then it's end. — Gail Caldwell

DRACO looks up at HARRY, and for the first time- at the bottom of this dreadful pit- they look at each other as friends. — J.K. Rowling