Papillary Quotes & Sayings

I love your bracelet!' I said to the brunette next to me, because, while most girls are onto the whole stranger-with-candy thing, the strangers-with-compliments strategy is still remarkably effective. — Ally Carter

I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined. — Bob Geldof

The Puritans came to America to worship in their way and to force everybody else to do the same thing. — Sam Levenson

In the past, dictionaries had been less scientific, and definitions often crudely brief. One example historians like to cite is the definition of 'mucus' in John Kersey's Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum (1708) as 'snot or snivel'. Johnson, by contrast, defers to the authority of the medic John Quincy, and defines 'mucus' as 'that which flows from the papillary processes through the os cribriforme into the nostrils'. Kersey exemplifies the simplicity of the older dictionaries. He defines 'coffin' as 'a case for a dead body', 'penis' as 'a man's yard', 'eye' as 'the wonderful instrument of sight', — Henry Hitchings

I know something about how to build constituencies in an independent way. — Michael Bloomberg

I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is. — Alicia Keys

Some fairy tales end with the girl marrying the prince ... some start there. — Diane Von Furstenberg

Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery? — Frank Lloyd Wright

O Lord, have Mercy and Compassion, for if Thou dost not have Mercy, who will have mercy?" The heartfelt prayer of this simple pilgrim epitomizes the quintessential Islamic attitude toward God as the source of compassion and mercy. No matter what one has done in life, one should never lose hope in His Compassion and Mercy, for as the Quran states, "And who despaireth of the Mercy of his Lord save those who go astray" (15:56), and "Do not despair of God's Mercy" (39:53). — Seyyed Hossein Nasr

And now that I am older, I don't give a damn about sin. I will be the first to cast one. — Trista Mateer

I know people who are always freeriders and will never get into a fight. — Paul Singer