Pastoor Desmond Quotes

#1. I can absolutely assure you that birth is nothing like holding an ice cube in your hand for a minute and breathing through the "pain.

Cassi Clark

#2. 'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.

Rachel Kushner

#3. Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

#4. Some countries, like Saudi Arabia, where the population growth is very high, whereby you don't have the mortgage low yet. Still the demand outstrips supply by much.

Al-Waleed Bin Talal

#5. Probably my favorite job that I've ever had and probably will have - although I'm reserving judgment on Manhattan Love Story, Tuesday nights at 8:30 on ABC, because it's pretty fun so far - is Psych, which I did for four or five years.

Kurt Fuller

#6. Dwarves are not heroes, but a calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not but are decent enough people like Thorin and Company, if you don't expect too much.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#7. A true conception of the relation of the sexes will not admit of conqueror and conquered; it knows of but one great thing; to give of one's self boundlessly, in order to find one's self richer, deeper, better.

Emma Goldman

#8. The Autumn seems to cry for thee,Best lover of the Autumn-days!

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

#9. The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families.

Jeremy Rifkin

#10. To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.

Maya Lin

#11. I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.

Willie Stargell

#12. If the people of America do not rise up, take ownership of our country, we're going to lose it forever.

Cindy Sheehan

#13. When things go wrong under your command start searching in increasingly large circles around your own two feet.

Bruce Clarke

#14. Republicans: the party that brought us 'Just Say No.' First as a drug policy, then as their entire platform.

Stephen Colbert

#15. Study the rules so that you won't beat yourself by not knowing something.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias