Daddy Lola Quotes & Sayings

Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste. — William Butler Yeats

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion. — Arnold Bennett

This is how it happens. We get the Dream, but we don't get to dictate every step toward the dream. — Peter McWilliams

Those who do not accept conscience as a teacher must face it as an accuser. — J. Budziszewski

I think that George Lucas' 'Star Wars' films are fantastic. What he's done, which I admire, is he has taken all the money and profit from those films and poured it into developing digital sound and surround sound, which we are using today. — Peter Jackson

All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously. — Hermann Hesse

THE WAIT: It is life in slow motion,
it's the heart in reverse,
it's a hope-and-a-half:
too much and too little at once.
It's a train that suddenly
stops with no station around,
and we can hear the cricket,
and, leaning out the carriage
door, we vainly contemplate
a wind we feel that stirs
the blooming meadows, the meadows
made imaginary by this stop. — Rainer Maria Rilke

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jan-Peter offered to teach me the language of Amsterdam's red light district ... But after his first phrase
'Using the back door will cost you double'
I withdrew my request. — Cristina Garcia

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final. — Hypatia

Wuthering Heights, considered the most romantic book ever written by those who had never read it carefully. — Catherine Lowell

My only regret is that I'm going before that rat, Robespierre! [to his executioner] Don't forget to show my head to the people; it's well worth seeing. — Georges Danton

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. — Henry A. Kissinger

If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it's a human need. — Ai Weiwei