Quotations

"One cell contains a digitally coded database larger, in information content, than all 30 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica put together."

— Richard Dawkins, English evolutionary biologist, born 1941

"If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers."

— Doris Day, American actress, born 1922

"You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know when it's right."

— Dorothy Day, American social activist, born 1897

"Most of our life is unimportant, filled with trivial things from morning till night. But when it is transformed by love it is of interest even to the angels."

— Dorothy Day, American social activist, born 1897

"What we do is very little, but it is like the little boy with a few loaves of fishes. Christ took that little and increased it. He will do the rest. What we do is so little we may seem to be constantly failing. But so did He fail. He met with apparent failure on the cross. But unless the seed fall into the earth and die, there is no harvest. And why must we see results? our work is to sow. Another generation is to reap the harvest."

— Dorothy Day, American social activist, born 1897

"Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed that easily."

— Dorothy Day, American social activist, born 1897

"The mystery of poverty is that by sharing it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge and belief in love."

— Dorothy Day, American social activist, born 1897

"We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand."

— Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish-English poet, born 1904

"Selfhood begins with a walking away, and love is proved in letting go."

— Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish-English poet, born 1904

"Films exhaust me, they do, and I often want nothing more to do with them, but I'm continually surprised at the resurgence of the impulse to come back and do it all over again."

— Daniel Day-Lewis, English-Irish actor, born 1957

"As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful."

— Daniel Day-Lewis, English-Irish actor, born 1957

"Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect."

— Daniel Day-Lewis, English-Irish actor, born 1957

"Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice."

— Moshe Dayan, Israeli military leader, born 1915

"If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies."

— Moshe Dayan, Israeli military leader, born 1915