Duermo In English Quotes & Sayings

What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all? — Richard Dawkins

There is no doubt that radium is transformed spontaneously into an active gas, radon, emitting at the same time alpha particles, or helions. — Frederic Joliot-Curie

I would rather instill in my amateur students love, than knowledge, of music. Left with only knowledge, they will at the end close their books and consign the course to forgetfulness. But if they have learned to love but the smallest part of the art, they are likely to pursue some phase of it the rest of their lives. — Ernst Bacon

You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires. — Tom Stoppard

They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

When we relate to ourselves with loving kindness, perfectionism naturally drops away. — Sharon Salzberg

Reading is a very strange thing. We get talked to about it and talk explicitly about it in first grade and second grade and third grade, and then it all devolves into interpretation. But if you think about what's going on when you read, you're processing information at an incredible rate.
One measure of how good the writing is is how little effort it requires for the reader to track what's going on. For example, I am not an absolute believer in standard punctuation at all times, but one thing that's often a big shock to my students is that punctuation isn't merely a matter of pacing or how you would read something out loud. These marks are, in fact, cues to the reader for how very quickly to organize the various phrases and clauses of the sentence so the sentence as a whole makes sense. — David Foster Wallace

Lauren should not be the exception, but the norm! — Dianne Winbanks