Dorimon Quotes & Sayings

I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going. — Anna Funder

I'm still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about "self-esteem" would have seemed like a luxury. — Gloria Steinem

The poet is intimate with truth, while the scientist approaches awkwardly. — Paramahansa Yogananda

Let you hold in mind, girls, that your beauty must pass
Like a lovely white clover that rusts with its grass.
Keep your bottoms off barstools and marry you young
Or be left
an old barrel with many a bung. — X.J. Kennedy

The belief that tomorrow is a different place from today is certainly a unique hallmark of our species. — Douglas Coupland

I make a bomb vaca frita. It's like a flank steak like with the ropa vieja, but it's fried with garlic and lime. And I make a really good picadillo. — Natalie Martinez

Bullshit is Truth, Truth Beauty — Moctezuma Johnson

In that eternity of his, where everybody will be happy, how could he feel the lack of her, the loss of her? — Marilynne Robinson

The reason some crime writers have a chip on their shoulder about the label is because their good books are shelved beside books about nuns and birdwatchers and cats who solve crimes. Overseas, my books are reviewed alongside those of authors like Robert Stone and Don DeLillo, and I have to live and die by that comparison. They don't ghettoize crime writers in other countries, and of course they shouldn't. — George Pelecanos

Knowledge makes us stronger, but power is not supersede by it (knowledge). Vulnerable is power without knowledge. Impracticable is knowledge without power. — VIRGIL PROFEANU

There's a certain mentality in law enforcement that says you shouldn't be the type of person who takes things personally. If you are, you're weak. Build a wall. I hear that one a lot. The problem is, I'm a person. And when another person calls me on the phone asking for my compassion and my help, I don't want them to have to jump my wall to get it. — Caroline Burau

The bloodline of Jesus is thicker, deeper, stronger than the bloodline of race, ethnicity and family. — John Piper

The highest purpose in this universe
is the creation of an effect. — L. Ron Hubbard

People fear what they don't understand and hate what they can't conquer. — Andrew Smith

Did anyone ever hear of an intelligent fantasy? — Nuala O'Faolain