Patrena Magdalene Quotes

#1. People want biography. People want memoir. They want you to tell them that the story you're telling them is true. The thing I'm telling you is true, but it did not always happen to me.

Dorothy Allison

#2. If you rip, tear, shred, bend, fold, deface, disfigure, smear, smudge, throw, drop, or in any other manner damage, mistreat, or show lack of respect towards this book, the consequences will be as awful as it is within my power to make them.

J.K. Rowling

#3. What's the point in being here if you have to follow a computer? What is this, a fucking Turing test in reverse?

Ahmir Questlove Thompson

#4. The references you do not verify are the good ones.

Charles Peguy

#5. I promised a lot of people I'd slow down when I turned 80.

Frank Gehry

#6. The incident had that rich savor of the ludicrous which neither pity nor charity can destroy. Unfortunately, she could not in decency share it with anybody; she could only enjoy it in lonely ecstasies of mirth.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#7. Love - the more you share with others, the more you have.

Mother Teresa

#8. People say:
'Let the facts speak for themselves'; they forget that the speech of facts is real only if it is heard and understood.

Ernst F. Schumacher

#9. What we need is a full field guide to the microbes that live in and on people, so that we can understand what they're doing to our lives. We are them; they are us.

Jonathan Eisen

#10. Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.

Plautus

#11. There are months when I'm on a plane every day!

Janelle Monae

#12. Be gentle...Many of the people who will come to see you are injured in spirit. They need to talk about things that have hurt them, or about things that they have done. Do not sit in judgement on them, but listen. Just listen.

Alexander McCall Smith

#13. If you stop exercising - which I did - and if you stop watching your caloric intake - which I did - you're gonna get fat.

Kirstie Alley