Voodun Quotes & Sayings

I turned, painting in hand, to show it to her, and then realized she wasn't there. Or - she was there and she wasn't. Part of her was there, but it was invisible. The invisible part was the important part. This was something I hadn't understood before. — Donna Tartt

The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character. — Dorothea Dix

The Stamp Act imposed on the colonies by the Parliament of Great Britain is an ill-judged measure. Parliament has no right to put its hands into our pockets without our consent. — George Washington

After years of pretending at emotions, he'd grown to appreciate their mystery, their chaos and randomness. Sometimes they were predictable, one-dimensional, almost stupid - other times they were so confounding, complex, and exquisite that he was convinced humans really were as special as they thought themselves to be. — Kim White

Your troubles may point you to death and destruction, but God's Word points you to life. — T. B. Joshua

I had to redo my last house after the pipes burst, and something was lost in the renovation. The soul of the old space was compromised. — Cindy Sherman

Maybe it's God disguised as Michael Jordan. — Larry Bird

For intellect is a mansion where waste is without drain ... — Allen Tate

Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the mysterious terrors of childhood, the dangerous passions of adults, into her own honey-dusk 'voodun': protective, purified to gold. Poetry is always a time machine: here we are invisible travelers to a bewitched past, a beautifully occluded future. These poems are erotic, vertiginous, revelatory, their dazzling lyric force reflecting profound hermetic life. — Carol Muske-Dukes

What is the use of having powers, doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them? — Arthur Conan Doyle

Government is a parasite-a cancer that by nature tries to spread deeper into society. Those who want to run others' lives won't give up and start minding their own business. — Harry Browne

Birds know, better than humans, not to spoil the nest. — Carl Sagan

Based on the Bible, I believe that all the land animals were made on day six, and Adam and Eve were made on day six, and people try to make fun of us for believing that dinosaurs lived with people, but there are a lot of animals living today that evolution says lived with dinosaurs. — Ken Ham

That's the most pathetic part of being a human, the emotions you don't ask for or want, they just rush you anyway. — Tarryn Fisher