Noorman Faris Quotes

#1. For the professors in the academy, for the humanities generally, misery is more amenable to analysis: happiness is a harder nut to crack.

Ian McEwan

#2. There are no flaws in the soul of every human being.

Ma Jaya

#3. Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of the earth's surface was quite outside the Mediterranean world, Persia, India, and China.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

#4. One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

Taylor Swift

#5. Over my lifetime, I've had an interesting relationship with poop...the rectum is a grand thing. My favorite thing about the human body is that we're all basically doughnuts.

Tyler Oakley

#6. What should I get from books?" Alcide asked in French.
That you are not alone - even along this broken tractor road. You need to know nothing else," my father answered in French.

David Adams Richards

#7. Grub Street Writers is the reason I've stayed in Boston. I started teaching for Grub back in 1997, when founder Eve Bridburg, a Boston University M.A. alumna, as I am, kindly gave me my first job out of grad school.

Jenna Blum

#8. This is our world now, and those ancient people are dead.

Chuck Palahniuk

#9. The act of collaboration must start with dialogue. You cannot build relationships without having an understanding of your potential partners, and you cannot achieve that understanding without a special form of communication that goes beyond ordinary conversation.

Daniel Yankelovich

#10. It is not the germs we need worry about. It is our inner terrain.

Louis Pasteur

#11. The main problem was I don't like people in general and people my age in particular, and people my age are the ones who go to college.

Peter Cameron

#12. all children are born into a losing struggle with death

Christopher Hitchens