Dallmann Blog Quotes & Sayings

Each part of a great painting should in itself be a great painting. — Melissa Brown

All books are in safe hands with me. They're my children, my inky children, and I look after them well. I keep the sunlight away from their pages, I dust and protect them from hungry hookworms and grubby human fingers. — Cornelia Funke

Facing your fears is the beginning of the battle. — Mark Batterson

History is the great propagator of doubt. — A.J.P. Taylor

The Martians were there - in the canal - reflected in the water ... The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water ... — Ray Bradbury

A single dream can launch the journey of a lifetime. — Unknown

It can take years. With the first draft, I just write everything. With the second draft, it becomes so depressing for me, because I realize that I was fooled into thinking I'd written the story. I hadn't - I had just typed for a long time. So then I have to carve out a story from the 25 or so pages. It's in there somewhere - but I have to find it. I'll then write a third, fourth, and fifth draft, and so on. — David Sedaris

There is the work of great men and there is the work of little men. Therefore it is said, 'Some labor with their minds and some labor with their strength. Those who labor with their minds govern others; those who labor with their strength are governed by others.'1 Those who are governed by others support them; those who govern them are supported by them. This is a universal principle. — Mencius

The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent. — Tacitus

If AIBO is in some sense a toy, it is a toy that changes minds. It does this in several ways. It heightens our sense of being close to developing a postbiological life and not just in theory or in the laboratory. And it suggests how this passage will take place. It will begin with our seeing the new life as "as if " life and then deciding that "as if " may be life enough. Even now, as we contemplate "creatures" with artificial feelings and intelligence, we come to reflect differently on our own. The question here is not whether machines can be made to think like people but whether people have always thought like machines. — Sherry Turkle

One doesn't love any of the things of Summer as much as one does the things of Spring. — Anne Douglas Sedgwick

It is often hazardous to marry an heiress, as she is not unfrequently the last of a diseased family. — Erasmus Darwin

I'm not asking you to describe the rain falling the night the archangel arrived; I'm demanding that you get me wet. Make up your mind, Mr. Writer, and for once in your life be the flower that smells rather than the chronicler of the aroma. There's not much pleasure in writing what you live. The challenge is to live what you write. — Eduardo Galeano

I feel uncomfortable because I'm insecure about who I am. — Trent Reznor