Marchioness Irene Quotes

#1. The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts and myths.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#2. Have you heard that modesty is an attractive traits?
Only to ugly people

Cassandra Clare

#3. Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to ...

James Elkins

#4. You cannot be named. To define is to confine.

Sue Maisano

#5. I suppose," continued Nate, "it's not Bertie's fault that he lacks the physical stature to carry a delicate young woman such as yourself a good distance. I believe he did not care to see you within the folds of my arms which were reluctant to release you, for I thought I would never see you again...

Margie Bayer

#6. Kundalini energy passes through the shushumna, which is a Sanskrit name for an astral nerve channel that runs along the spinal column.

Frederick Lenz

#7. In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.

Martha Graham

#8. I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think, on innumeracy.

Daniel Tammet

#9. By way of contrast he wanted to stress that the gospel's center is found in Jesus Christ himself, who has been crucified for sin and raised for justification, with the inbuilt implication that Christ himself thus defined and described should be proclaimed as able to save all who come to him.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

#10. Why is it that you can bear pain, but someone's kindness makes you cry?

Jackie French

#11. I have a master's degree in medieval literature. Wyverns - or firedrakes, if you prefer - were once common in European mythology and legends." "But you . . . you're my accountant," Sarah sputtered. "Do you have any idea how many English majors are accountants?" Vivian asked with raised eyebrows.

Deborah Harkness

#12. Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.

Cyril Connolly

#13. We're getting rid of the D [in PTSD]. PTS is an injury; it's not a disorder. The problem is when you call it a disorder, [veterans] don't think they can be treated. An employer says, 'I don't want to hire somebody with a disorder.

George W. Bush