Djuna Barnes Quotes
One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.
Djuna Barnes
Quotes to Explore
-
During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
Ingrid Betancourt
-
Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
Felix Bloch
-
In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
Edmund Husserl
-
I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
-
All I ever wanted to do is make music.
Caleb Johnson
-
Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
-
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso
-
I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
Gary Weiss
-
I never go on a run when I don't think of my dad, where I don't think about how powerful his legs were and what happened because, unfortunately, he didn't take care of himself.
Dan Hill
-
I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
Ioan Gruffudd
-
There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.
J. Donald Walters
-
Judaism and Christianity in themselves are distinctly separate entities, to be sure; but when considering their influence on Western thought, we must bear in mind that Christianity alone, or almost alone, transmitted the Jewish share, simply by what it contained of it in its own, original constitution.
Hans Jonas
-
I call it the 'House of Reprehensibles.' We don't have any real political resistance to this growth of the domestic state across the board. So I'm much more focused on that than on the Patriot Act, which is a real effort, however inept, to deal with a real problem.
M. Stanton Evans
-
Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.
Charles Lamb
-
Penises, toe knuckles, bellybuttons, vaginas. Sam felt the expansiveness of his own desires as he sensed, stretching away on all sides of him, an endless forest of jutting elbows, erect penises, stiff nostril hairs, clitoral flaps, quivering eyelids, testicles round as ice cream scoops, and pert feisty nipples – a wonderful wilderness he could get lost in and explore for the rest of his life.
Barry Webster
-
This drama between Dean and Ehrlichman took place while I was trying to give the contents to the FBI.
Fred F. Fielding
-
I think it's good to have switched to a much more visual world and that people are not all that interested in words.
Jerry Della Femina
-
One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.
Djuna Barnes
