Ascaris Quotes

#1. Utah may well be the most cosmopolitan state in America. Vast numbers of young Mormons - increasingly women as well as men - spend a couple of years abroad as missionaries and return jabbering in Thai or Portuguese and bearing a wealth of international experience.

Nicholas Kristof

#2. Maybe he should have kept quiet about if he knew they couldn't stand it.
Is that what you do?

Caryl Churchill

#3. Only the series of colors on the canvas with all their power and vibrancy could, in combination with each other, render the chromatic feeling of that landscape.

Maurice De Vlaminck

#4. They were twenty-seven already, in no time at all they'd be thirty, terrifying. No one knew what would happen then. Michelle couldn't imagine anything more than writing zine-ish memoirs and working in bookstores.

Michelle Tea

#5. When you feel the urge to design a complex binary file format, or a complex binary application protocol, it is generally wise to lie down until the feeling passes.

Eric S. Raymond

#6. Following God involves courage, but not risk. Once

Patrick Mead

#7. The expected is what keeps us steady. It's the unexpected that changes our lives forever.

Shonda Rhimes

#8. My breasts can always tell when its gonna rain

Karen Smith

#9. I believe dreams connect us to our ancestors and it is through creativity that we can tap into this in the conscious state. Creativity is a sort of trance that we have as artists that erases time and space.

Lorin Morgan-Richards

#10. [C]ontinence is a very important part of yoga. If a handful of people come forward with strong wills, nothing is impossible. One Buddha changed half the globe; one Jesus, three quarters of the world. We all have that capacity. (140)

Swami Satchidananda

#11. The single outstanding exception was the broad yet precise mandate communicated by the General Assembly in 1946 to prepare as soon as possible the Charter of Human Rights which the San Francisco Conference had not had the time or the courage to draw up.

Rene Cassin

#12. A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes.

Julian Tuwim