Membranaceous Quotes & Sayings

Think of prayer as a fundamental exercise we use to build core spiritual strength. Like exercise for our bodies, it has to be consistent - every single day - to build strength. — Virginia H. Pearce

There's not a self-regulating group of nice fair-playing people in politics. There are a lot of dodgy people in politics. — Heather Brooke

For me, the American promise isn't just an idea or a theory - it's my life story. — Cristina Saralegui

It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it. — Gerrit Smith

We've had a digital revolution, but we don't need to keep having it. And I'd like to look after that, to look what comes after the digital revolution. — Neil Gershenfeld

To justify an unorthodox life by writing about it is to re-inscribe the original violation, to re-violate masculine turf. — Nancy K. Miller

Make it a point not to be over-fascinating. — Martial

Then he told himself to be calm: this took place a thousand times a day all over the world. He did not need to understand it. The baby would come without his help. — Ken Follett

Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude. — Frederick Douglass

There's no such thing as addiction, there's only things that you enjoy doing more than life. — Doug Stanhope

Building an online community is not an event, it is an ongoing process. — Sharon Lina Pearce

And yet I shall try again: "they are murdering me!"
all right, all together once more: "they are murdering me!" and again: "murdering" ... I want to write this in such a way that you will cover your ears, your membranaceous, simian ears that you hide under strands of beautiful feminine hair
but I know them, I see them, I pinch them, the cold little things, I worry them with my fingers to somehow warm them, bring them to life, render them human, force them to hear me. — Vladimir Nabokov

But Zarathustra made it clear in which direction the answer lay; it is towards the artist-psychologist, the intuitional thinker. There are very few such men in the world's literature; the great artists are not thinkers, the great thinkers are seldom artists. — Colin Wilson