Meretrix Meretrix Quotes & Sayings

Social networking is about building people up in your network NOT tearing them down — Tasha Turner

Take some advice," Kingsley said, "and keep your eyes on me. If you stare at him too long, you might learn something about what it means to be a man of God. — Tiffany Reisz

In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of random mutations plus natural selection
quite unaware of the fact that random mutations turned out to be irrelevant and natural selection tautology. — Arthur Koestler

Let the dry eyes perceive
Others betray the lamenting lies of their losses
By the curve of the nude mouth or the laugh up the sleeve. — Dylan Thomas

When I was twelve I was obsessed. Everything was sex. Latin was sex. The dictionary fell open at 'meretrix', a harlot. You could feel the mystery coming off the word like musk. 'Meretrix'! This was none of your mensa-a-table, this was a flash from a forbidden planet, and it was everywhere. History was sex, French was sex, art was sex, the Bible, poetry, penfriends, games, music, everything was sex except biology which was obviously sex but not really sex, not the one which was secret and ecstatic and wicked and a sacrament and all the things it was supposed to be but couldn't be at one and the same time - I got that in the boiler room and it turned out to be biology after all. — Tom Stoppard

What is ugly about life is that it so often only provides uneasy half solutions that are so seldom pure and tragic ones. — Harry Graf Kessler