Dirigan Quotes & Sayings

During the first suffragist wave in this nation, women were possessions, like a table or a chair. So violence toward them was quite condoned. The attitude has diminished, but it's still there. — Gloria Steinem

I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished. — Charles Dickens

God has tortured Theo plenty. If suffering makes noble, then he is a prince. — Donna Tartt

I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right. — George M. Cohan

All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves. — James Russell Lowell

The funniest thing about comedy is that you never know why people laugh. I know what makes them laugh but trying to get your hands on the why of it is like trying to pick an eel out of a tub of water. — W.C. Fields

The fact that all our ape cousins - chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans - can acquire signs - is powerful evidence that our hominid ancestors' first language was gestural and that the vocal version of language was a relatively recent development. My own guess is that vocal language began emerging about 200,000 years ago. — Roger Fouts

If you are a Rothschild, a Rosenwald, a Gimbel, or even a Waldbaum, growing up Jewish can be a rich experience. For the rest of us, it could be just so-so. — Gene Saks

The music's job is to get the audience so involved that they forget how the movie turns out. — James Horner

What is meant here is that man should not become immersed in loving the world which will make him forget the responsibilities that Allah had ordered him to hold, but he has to look at the world in its reality, in which it represents a place for obeying Allah. — Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

That's what happened when you were possessed by a woman. All of a sudden you stopped running from love and started breaking all of your own rules ... making a fool of yourself. I was okay with that. - Caleb Drake — Tarryn Fisher

What are the temples which Roman robbers have reared, - what are the towers in which feudal oppression has fortified itself...to the deep forests which the eye of God has alone pervaded, and where Nature, in her unviolated sanctuary, has for ages laid her fruits and flowers on His altar! What is the echo of roofs...or or aisles that pealed the anthems of painted pomp, to the silence that has reigned in these dim groves since the first fiat of Creation was spoken. — Charles Fenno Hoffman

Many exiles leave the mainstream church and engage in the kinds of things we've looked at already: living an authentic life, struggling for global justice, showing compassion, pursuing vocation as a way of doing God's work. But often they do it alone, imagining that it's either the conventional church or no church at all. — Michael Frost

Don't worry, though, he'll be as good as
new. Boys his age bounce. — Harper Lee