Djesen Quotes

#1. The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school [in the 1960s] may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.

Camille Paglia

#2. And what we represent is an ordering to that chaos. Even down to the genes. We are ordering the evolution of

Anthony Doerr

#3. Security used to be an inconvenience sometimes, but now it's a necessity all the time.

Martina Navratilova

#4. Your success in life is determined by the extent to which you can humble yourself to serve others

Sunday Adelaja

#5. Penicillin was as liberating for gay sex as the pill had been for straight sex.

Christopher Bram

#6. Lawyers don't run sales forces.

Jeff Raikes

#7. I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation.

Margaret Mahy

#8. Sometimes I became so permeable, so porous, that I would absorb too much, until a valve yielded, and everything rushed out in a quick drain.

Ellen Miller

#9. Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.

James Dyson

#10. needed my collegiate heroics to mean something more than just the Olympian like state of my liver.

Bodhi Alvarez

#11. Every secret has a expiration date...

Josiyah Martin

#12. Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the Great Spirit; and the visions of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people.

Chief Seattle

#13. Some day, his mind said, that boy would know what things were in the books and what things were not.

John Steinbeck