De Marigny Properties Quotes

#1. The greatest single virtue of a strong legislature is not what it can do, but what it can prevent.

J. William Fulbright

#2. People always ask if I was really voted Most Bizarre Girl in high school. But that one's actually true. I was living in Michigan in a very conservative town and had a nose-ring and a shaved head and did kind of strange things.

Gillian Anderson

#3. Comparison is the thief of happiness.

Brene Brown

#4. I have been probing the arguments for global warming for well over a decade. In collaboration with a lot of excellent coauthors I have consistently found that when the layers get peeled back, what lies at the core is either flawed, misleading or simply non-existent.

Ross McKitrick

#5. There's a reason why the NRA's not here. They're just down the street. And since this is the main reason they exist, you'd think that they'd be prepared to have a debate with a president.

Barack Obama

#6. No doubt, humans will do a lot of damage before we ultimately destroy ourselves. But life will continue without humans. New forms of intelligence will emerge long after this human experiment is over.

Zeena Schreck

#7. Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.

Jeanette Winterson

#8. Progress comes from caring more about what needs to be done than about who gets the credit

Dorothy Height

#9. Most people who came here came for economic reasons or sometimes for religious or political reasons. I didn't have any of this. I came here, I liked it, I stayed. So I'm a pure American - even more than people who are born here - because I did it by choice as an adult.

Jacques Pepin

#10. Angels also often want to contribute more than money to a young company. Angels have the experience, and inclination, to be great mentors and valuable directors.

Basil Peters

#11. I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.

Alan Alda

#12. I like you."
"That's tough, Joan," I said, picking up my book. "Because I don't like you. You make me puke, if you want to know."
And I walked out of the room, leaving Joan lying, lumpy as an old horse, across my bed.

Sylvia Plath

#13. Carlos was probably somewhere warm, eating three meals a day, and sleeping in a real bed. That was the life

Susan Beth Pfeffer