Regenstein Quotes & Sayings

I believe that am entire nation should not be judged by the wrongdoings of a few extremists. — Marjane Satrapi

Most guys my age have girlfriends and drinking buddies on their speed dial. Me, I have the Memphis CDC. — Mira Grant

Fundamentalists didn't try to disprove science. They didn't argue against it. They pronounced against it! It was the equivalent of a parent clinching an argument with a child by shouting: 'because I say so'. That's what fundamentalist religion does. It refutes not by evidence but by authority. Why is Darwin wrong? Because the Bible says so! But they did more than pontificate. They tried to ban science itself. That's — Richard Holloway

He thought it disproportionate in its violence considering the fragility of us. — David Jones

As artists, we are so not in control most of the time of the content or the narrative of our characters, and sometimes writing takes a turn and it's not something we necessarily have control over. It's just a lot of random dumb luck, so when things click, you've just got to enjoy it. — Mike Colter

We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough. — Helen Keller

The essence of Buddhist practice is not so much an effort at changing your thoughts or your behavior so that you can become a better person, but in realizing that no matter what you might think about the circumstances that define your life, you're already good, whole, and complete. It's about recognizing the inherent potential of your mind. In other words, Buddhism is not so much concerned with getting well as with recognizing that you are, right here, right now, as whole, as good, as essentially well as you could ever hope to be. — Yongey Mingyur

Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its desires ... — Dean Koontz

'The Art of the Brick' is an exhibition I've done where I've taken some works of art from art history and replicated them all out of Lego bricks. — Nathan Sawaya

Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say - no detail spared in the quest for perfection. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Only those elements time cannot wear: The Angels, the Empyrean, and the First Matter are the elements time cannot wear, for they will last to all time. Man, however, in his mortal state, is not eternal. The Gate of Hell, therefore, was created before man. The theological point is worth attention. The doctrine of Original Sin is, of course, one familiar to many creeds. Here, however, it would seem that the preparation for damnation predates Original Sin. True, in one interpretation. Hell was created for the punishment of the Rebellious Angels and not for man. Had man not sinned, he would never have known Hell. But on the other hand, Dante's God was one who knew all, and knew therefore that man would indeed sin. The theological problem is an extremely delicate one. — Dante Alighieri

There's no such thing as an unbreakable scientific rule, because, sooner or later, they all seem to get broken. Or to change. — Madeleine L'Engle

One of the signs of a dysfunctional narrative is that we cannot leave it behind, and we cannot put it to rest, because it does not, finally, give us the explanation we need to enclose it. — Charles Baxter