Durkheimogens Quotes & Sayings

What is hiking but walking, after all ? — Cheryl Strayed

God wants to live this life together with you, to share in your days and decisions, your desires and disappointments. He wants intimacy with you in the midst of the madness and the mundane, the meetings and the memos, the laundry and the lists, the carpools and conversations and projects and pain. He wants to pour his love into your heart and he longs to have you pour yours into his. — John Eldredge

Back in 1962, when I had by accident become the supervisor of Roberto Celis in Argentina, it occurred to me that antibody diversity might arise from the joining by disulphide bridges of a variety of small polypeptides in combinatorial patterns. — Cesar Milstein

Working on the Dave Chappelle show was amazing. — Bill Burr

Light sufferings give us leisure to complain. — John Dryden

When my film went to the Venice Film Festival and won the best script writing, the jury [prize], it didn't go to my head. I know how many black filmmakers that I am operating with whose name will never be mentioned. But I'm part of them in that silent existence. — Haile Gerima

I think these drugs could just as well be called Durkheimogens, given their unique (though unreliable) ability to shut down the self and give people experiences they later describe as "religious" or — Jonathan Haidt

Be careful what you wish for,her mind thundered. — Julia Quinn

I tried to drown my demons with whiskey, but I found out real devils can swim. — Billy O'Connor

There Was an Old Woman Called Nothing-at-All,
Who Lived in a Dwelling Exceedingly Small;
A Man Stretched His Mouth to the Utmost Extent,
And Down at One Gulp House and Old Woman Went. — Sharon Olds

Some said, "John, print it"; others said "Not so." Some said, "It might do good"; others said, "No." — John Bunyan

Groom yourself and your life like a shrub. Trim off the edges and you'll be stronger in the broken places. Embrace the new growth and blossom at the tips. — D'Andre Lampkin

Why should you care if you have nothing to hide? — J. Edgar Hoover

We made one film called Thy Neighbor's Wife in which I got flogged at the public whipping post for adultery. I did my best acting in that film, I guess. — Cleo Moore

In the king's bed is always found, just before it becomes a museum piece, the droppings of the black sheep. — Nathanael West

She had come to letters late in her life, and though she had mastered them, they had never become her good friends. — Robin Hobb