Durning Library Quotes & Sayings

Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. — Christian Nestell Bovee

I know you're just a rag doll now, sewn together with memories that we might have had. I know you're just the dream inside of a dream And don't worry, I know I don't know you, anymore. — Pleasefindthis

Next time you see an unblemished expanse of grass, think about the chemicals that probably got dumped in your vicinity to create it. Are you grateful for that? — Robert Wright

The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses. — Johannes P. Muller

Morals are like social classes, there are poor and rich people. — Eyden I.

Anger has been a really big deal for women: how can we express it without feeling that, as the physically weaker sex, we won't get killed. The alpha-woman was burned at the stake and had her head chopped off in days of old. — Alanis Morissette

Darwin called such a process artificial, as opposed to natural, selection, but from the flower's point of view, this is a distinction without a difference: individual plants in which a trait desired by either bees or Turks occurred wound up with more offspring. — Michael Pollan

Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man
Still to remember wrongs? — William Shakespeare

I'm not comfortable with comfort. I'm only comfortable when I'm in a place where I'm constantly learning and growing. — Kanye West

May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books. — Thomas Carlyle