Sir James Frazer Quotes

#1. Anthropologically informed works, from Sir James Frazer's Golden Bough to Pascal Boyer's Religion Explained or Scott Atran's In Gods We Trust, fascinatingly document the bizarre phenomenology of superstition and ritual. Read such books and marvel at the richness of human gullibility. But that is not

Richard Dawkins

#2. Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.

Eugene O'Neill

#3. When we give what we can, and give it with joy, we don't just renew the American tradition of giving, we also renew ourselves.

William J. Clinton

#4. To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#5. There's no escaping from constant escape.

Chuck Palahniuk

#6. But that's the paradox of expectations; they are infamous for generally never being fulfilled

Kudrat Dutta Chaudhary

#7. What attracts us in a woman rarely binds us to her.

John Churton Collins

#8. In the fleeting light she saw the meadow, dotted with stunted hawthorns, their twisted limbs dense with red berries, and then a shape: achingly familiar, child-sized, shockingly still.

Sanjida Kay

#9. Building castles in the air is useless unless you have a ladder to reach them.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#10. Drawing is of the spirit; color is of the senses.

Henri Matisse

#11. The reporting I did was mostly entertainment or lifestyle. I took a very different approach than most reporters. I approached it more casually than you would think a reporter would. Now I'm a morning radio personality, and radio is really casual.

Eleanor Mondale

#12. It was the doing, he learned quickly enough - in the first inn that refused to serve him his requested flask of Senzio green wine - of the pinch-buttocked, joy-killing priests of Eanna. The

Guy Gavriel Kay

#13. I feel like the best thing, as far as what I do with kids, is I treat them like human beings.

Mike Vallely

#14. No surprise here: Pop music is by far the most conservative art form there is.

Russell Smith