Durriya Pierce Quotes & Sayings

She's had a long life. Now she's going to the Lord."
"Frankly it creeps me out a little when you say things like that," Simon said.
"It shouldn't. If you don't like 'Lord,' pick another word. She's going home. She's going back to the party. Whatever you like."
"I suppose you have some definite ideas about an afterlife."
"Sure. We get reabsorbed into the earthly and celestial mechanism."
"No heaven?"
"That's heaven."
"What about realms of glory? What about walking around in golden slippers?"
"We abandon consciousness as if we were waking from a bad dream. We throw it off like clothes that never fit us right. It's an ecstatic release we're physically unable to apprehend while we're in our bodies. Orgasm is our best hint, but it's crude and minor by comparison. — Michael Cunningham

I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except a crash. — Brenda Lee

With heart for mind, we love not wise
Besieged by what Man took for eyes. — Helen McKinnon Doan

We got a plague of people, a disease of people infesting the world. We got more people who are living longer. Less people have to be born, that's the answer. We got death control - we got to match it with birth control. — Harry Harrison

I was surprised by the level of sophistication of the Special Operation forces. Among them were anthropologists and PhD candidates. I felt because I understand the patterns of nineteenth-century jihad in West Africa that I was definitely going to be more advanced than they were in comprehending what the militant rallying cry was. — Eliza Griswold

If you wan to steal money, don't rob a bank - open one. — Bertolt Brecht

But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long." That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come. — Langston Hughes

I'm not the type of person to eat big hunks of meat. I think people are starting to realize that great things come in small batches. — April Bloomfield

Though life is made up of mere bubbles 'tis better than many have, for while we've a whole lot of troubles the most of them never occur. — Nixon Waterman

If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that. — Mary Garden

Don't be serious, be sincere. — Chetan Bhagat

When people die,' she said softly, 'It doesn't necessarily mean you're ready to give them up. — C.A. Belmond