Parthenologist Quotes

#1. I want the evening upon which we lose our collective virginities to be special. I'm no parthenologist but I suspect that Jordana's virginity is still intact. Her biological knowledge is minimal. She thinks that a perineum is to do with glacial moraine.

Joe Dunthorne

#2. minority groups too often demand equal rights they haven't earned,

Anonymous

#3. Each implementation of human effort, however minute the overall result may be, is summed up in the gesture of the sower - sometimes an awe-inspiring gesture.

Emile Galle

#4. And we have so far improved upon the custom of Adam and Eve, that we generally furnish forth our feasts with a portion of some delicate calf or lamb, whose unspotted innocence entitles them to the happiness of becoming our sustenance.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#5. Hirsch and Ford believe that we've 'demonstrated' enough. It's now time for 'doing.' This book shows how to be missional 'Right Here, Right Now.'

Leonard Sweet

#6. I wasn't looking for religion; I was looking for a world view.

John Eldredge

#7. Desperation can make a person do surprising things.

Veronica Roth

#8. I am far from perfect, but I have something else. I heard that people in the industry are longing for more personality and diversity. Perhaps I am more a 'character' than a model.

Saskia De Brauw

#9. You could pick out what felt surprising in a book or poem and then save it, as long as you also wrote down the name of the person who wrote it first

Blue Balliett

#10. The rats we met the size of small dogs and they watched us go by like they'd figured out that what People were for was feeding rats.

Sarah Monette

#11. They are unanimous in their hate for me; and I welcome their hatred. (quoting FDR announcing the Second New Deal, 1936)

Yanis Varoufakis

#12. Yelling doesn't get your point across, it only makes it louder.

Grant Hill

#13. Other kids are brought up nice and sent to Harvard and Yale. Me? I was brought up like a mushroom.

Frank Costello