Sister Donna Markham Quotes & Sayings

The economy of early hominids and that of twenty-first century society have enormous differences, but they do share one important feature: in both of these economies, humans accumulate information in objects. Our world is different from that of early hominids only in the way in which atoms are arranged. — Cesar Hidalgo

When I was younger, I thought maybe one day I'd be involved in sport in terms of career. — Jamie Dornan

For years he'd lived by the maxim Henry Green put so beautifully in his public-school memoir Pack My Bag: 'The safest way to avoid trouble if one may not be going to fit is to take as great a part as possible in what is going on.'12 To gain approval, to avoid trouble, he had to mirror what was around him: it was how he had tried to win love from his mother as a child. It was a life of perpetual disguise. — Helen Macdonald

I don't think I'd ever write anything that I don't also direct just because it's so hard and painful to write as it is. — Cary Fukunaga

It was safer to walk softly, and surer to ask instead of telling. — Stephen King

The Unchanging
Sun-swept beaches with a light wind blowing
From the immense blue circle of the sea,
And the soft thunder where long waves whiten
These were the same for Sappho as for me.
Two thousand years - much has gone by forever,
Change takes the gods and ships and speech of men
But here on the beaches that time passes over
The heart aches now as then. — Sara Teasdale

I may have at some point referred to him as a douche nozzle. — Hannah Harrington

Success has ruined many a man. — Benjamin Franklin

A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing. — Barbara Johnson

I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent. — Dennis Potter

Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a cult food. Spain has paella and a number of others. Italy has so many, its cuisine is practically defined by them. — Nathan Myhrvold

Hanging out is good historical methodology. — Jean Pfaelzer

A shrink and a patient in a love-hate relationship. Who is REALLY the boss? — Mary Papas