Diaphragmatic Excursion Quotes

#1. Name one hero who was happy. You can't.

Madeline Miller

#2. I began the project of judging Mother Teresa's reputation by her actions and words rather than her actions and words by her reputation.

Christopher Hitchens

#3. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#4. This is the fiction that I'm referring to as rhapsody, this stitching of mimetic representation, oneiric imagery, ludic rules, allegoric morals, satiric critique and diegetic story into complex quiltings of narrative.

Hal Duncan

#5. Popping off, I say, "I wouldn't mind." Even if it tastes like shit, I'd swallow Alex Waters' jizz. Then I'd get the T-shirt.

Helena Hunting

#6. I have not heard from President Barack. I've never gotten a phone call.

Jay Pharoah

#7. It's the awareness beneath the thoughts, the stillness inside that creates space to connect with the magic on the outside.

Michelle Colston

#8. I like Beyonce's music - some of it, not all of it.

Aretha Franklin

#9. On religions and viewpoints: He who knows one, knows none.

Friedrich Max Muller

#10. -like maintaining the grounds of a castle when the knight, fallen in battle, will never be returning

Richard Blow

#11. In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.

Robert Louis Stevenson