Dalais Quotes & Sayings

Xavier had thought he was in paradise before. He'd been wrong. Sophia was more than paradise. She was the very reason he breathed. — Justine Dell

We thirst for approbation, yet cannot forgive the approver. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

As for super-stardom, I can say that I'm ready for anything. I feel like I've mastered so many stages in my life and the cool thing is, I don't see that energy changing anything. — Aeriel Miranda

Wives and such are constantly filling up any refrigerator they have a claim on, even its ice-compartment, with irrelevant rubbish like food. — Kingsley Amis

There are those nights where you are just so emotionally present that you crack yourself open. And it works. And on the nights when you don't have it in you because you're tired or you've got no voice, you still are able to do your job and tell the story that people have come to hear. — Staceyann Chin

Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy. — Charles Caleb Colton

You can't tell people how to feel when they read your work. You can only hope to connect. — Dan Chaon

All behavior involves conscious or unconscious selection of particular actions out of all those which are physically possible to the actor and to those persons over whom he exercises influence and authority. — Herbert Simon

I'm no George Brett, and I probably never will be. — Johnny Damon

Wickets are like wives. You never know what to expect from them. — Navjot Singh Sidhu

Even though I had the talent, programming just didn't feel right. I never considered it very seriously. Some people get gratification from bending a machine to their will. I didn't. — Mitch Kapor

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend. — Alexander Pope

Most of the media ... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future. — Carly Fiorina