Duboke Zenske Quotes & Sayings

The gentry protect their names like hymens,
They suck their names like thumbs,
But they sign their names and something happens.
While Zimmer, I can write, Zimmer,
All day, and nothing happens. — Paul Zimmer

I tried to sleep, falling into a doze as thin as tissue paper, — Peter Swanson

Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level ... A writer is someone who writes. — Pat Schneider

The right way to play golf is to go up and hit the bloody thing. — George Duncan

Lyell became something of a celebrity - the Steven Pinker of his generation - and — Elizabeth Kolbert

The Supreme Court has said that: Marriage is the most important relation in life. Now that's being withheld from the plaintiffs. It is the foundation of society. It is essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness. It's a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights and older than our political parties. One of the liberties protected by the Due Process Clause. A right of intimacy to the degree of being sacred. And a liberty right equally available to a person in a homosexual relationship as to heterosexual persons. — Ted Olson

I have always found fact infinitely more interesting than myths and falsehoods. — John Brunner

The yearbook voted me most likely to be scraped off an onramp by a puking fireman. — Christopher Titus

There seemed to be something in him that made him different from most of the people he encountered in the office or in the train or in the park or at the houses of others. He could not succeed in defining what this difference was, and he simultaneously despised and congratulated himself for having it. He would sincerely have liked to be rid of it, but at the same time was pretty sure it was the best thing about him. — Robert Aickman

I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested
'But these impulses may be from below, not from above.' I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live them from the devil. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Maybe it's the instinct of every immigrant, born of necessity or of longing: Someplace else will be better than here. And the condition: if only I can get to that place. — Cristina Henriquez

The exact meaning of Jeremiah is not certain: it may mean "the LORD exalts"; it may mean "the LORD hurls." What is certain is that "the LORD," the personal name of God, is in his name. — Eugene H. Peterson

I love my cigar too, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while. — Groucho Marx

Louis Brandeis was not a racist like Woodrow Wilson. — Jeffrey Rosen