Djawadian Quotes & Sayings

Our trade opens to all the world. — Ezra Stiles

Yet, in reality, Ted loved things more than he loved people. He could find life in an abandoned bicycle or an old car, and feel a kind of compassion for these inanimate objects, more compassion than he could ever feel for another human being. — Ann Rule

I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept. — Abel Ferrara

Despite some remaining puzzles, there's no reason to doubt that Darwin had this point right, that all creatures on earth are biological relatives — Michael Behe

Usually the amateur is defined as an immature state of the artist: someone who cannot - or will not - achieve the mastery of a profession. But in the field of photographic practice, it is the amateur, on the contrary, who is the assumption of the professional: for it is he who stands closer to the (i)noeme(i) of Photography. — Roland Barthes

I started writing for the theatre because I hated it. — Eugene Ionesco

Raven: The Reverend Mr Larynx has been called off on duty, to marry or bury (I don't know which) some unfortunate person or persons, at Claydyke: ... — Thomas Love Peacock

Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort. — Gordon B. Hinckley

Some people think this is paranoia, but it isn't. Paranoids only think everyone is out to get them. Wizards know it. — Terry Pratchett

The black woman had had to struggle against being a person of great strength. — Dorothy Height

It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence. — Joyce Carol Oates