Hesperian Quotes

#1. A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.

Alexander Pope

#2. In paganism light is mixed with darkness, and religion and truth are blended with superstition and error.

Lindley Murray

#3. Whatever are we to do about you, baby girl? Huh?' 'Kill me, I guess.' 'That idea has been said already. Got'ny other ones?' 'Help me. Ain't nobody said that idea yet, have they?

Daniel Woodrell

#4. The separate water foundations, park benches, bathrooms and restaurants of the Jim Crow South startled me. These experiences motivated my lifelong study of the status of African Americans and the sources of improvement in that status.

James Heckman

#5. The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They are better than most of the stories they are in.

Neil Gaiman

#6. I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the photographs. There was a purity to them that wasn't planned; it was realism.

Larry Clark

#7. The Bible is the story so far in the true novel that God is still writing.

N. T. Wright

#8. God seems to reward us with good, delightful experiences when we move with joy through the less-than-delightful times.

Charles R. Swindoll

#9. I'm no prophet and I'm no genius, but I can only tell you what I seem to know. As a fan of television and the movies, I think it's all for the better.

Denis Leary

#10. I think there simply comes a point at which you're beating your head against the wall with revision, when you're making something different but not better. For me, revision usually has more to do with making the language prettier, finding clearer images, using more active verbs.

Mary J. Miller

#11. If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?

Philip Dormer Stanhope

#12. The personal is political.

Shulamith Firestone

#13. You little (such a one who, while wearing a copper nose ring, stands in a footbath atop Mount Raruaruaha during a heavy thunderstorm and shouts that Alohura, goddess of lightning, has the facial features of a diseased uloruaha root)!

Terry Pratchett

#14. Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of everything.

Margaret Spellings

#15. Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.

Dan Aykroyd

#16. Botanists call it an invasive species. But aren't we all?

Teju Cole