Doug Walters Quotes & Sayings

I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality. — Winston Churchill

Their hands met; their eyes fastened; Starbuck's tears the glue. — Herman Melville

Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life. — Aimee Mann

Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme. — William S. Burroughs

Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability. — Malcolm Gladwell

I am a Netflix/DVR junkie. I don't like to watch TV without a plan. — Aubrey Plaza

But every time I shunned books, as scholars sometimes do, cursed them as verbal graveyards, and tried to make contact with the common folk, I ran up against the kids in our building and felt fortunate, after a few brushes with those little cannibals, to return to my reading in one piece. — Gunter Grass

the biblical scholar Richard Elliott Friedman notes that "probably the most remarkable difference of all" in disparate passages "is their different ways of picturing God." Some depict "a deity who can regret things that he has done ([Gen.] 6:6, 7), . . . a deity who can be 'grieved to his heart' (6:6). . . . This anthropomorphic quality . . . is virtually entirely lacking in other passages. — Terryl L. Givens

San Franciscans have a bond of self-satisfaction bordering on smugness. — Herb Caen

The word 'Antichrist', to me, is the collective disbelief in god. — Marilyn Manson

Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language. — George Mikes

We borrow from nature the space upon which we build. — Tadao Ando

Melbourne is wonderfully altered since I last saw it. There are some very fair buildings in it now, and things are a little cheaper than they used to be. — William John Wills