Seamus Dourke Quotes

#1. Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you.

Gilda Radner

#2. I never wanted to find my birth parents - if one set of parents felt like a misfortune, two sets would be self-destructive ...
I had no idea that you could like your parents or that they could love you enough to let you be yourself.

Jeanette Winterson

#3. Was he, after all, really a bad man doing a brilliant impersonation of an idiot? It was hard to tell. The connections between stupidity and malice were so tangled and so dense.

Edward St. Aubyn

#4. It is necessary to develop a strategy that utilizes all the physical conditions and elements that are directly at hand. The best strategy relies upon an unlimited set of responses.

Morihei Ueshiba

#5. Good God! Think of listening to Wagner for a whole fortnight with a woman who takes about as much interest in music as a tone-deaf newt - that would be fun!

Marcel Proust

#6. Simone de Beauvoir believed adolescence is when girls realize that men have the power and that their only power comes from consenting to become submissive adored objects. They do not suffer from the penis envy Freud postulated, but from power envy.

Mary Pipher

#7. She thinks of James Grierson. His Kisses tasted like whiskey, and they landed right and true.

Alden Bell

#8. I hope for the day when everyone can speak of God without embarrassment.

Paul Tillich

#9. Un bon croquis vaut mieux qu'un long discours (A good sketch is better than a long speech)

Napoleon Bonaparte

#10. My journalist sensibilities have guided me toward the types of projects I've gone for, even though the projects have been fairly diverse. It always has to have that interesting to attract me, I think.

Rhianna Pratchett