Dammeyer Fellow Quotes & Sayings

I'm writing this book because we're all going to die. — Jack Kerouac

That man made a deep impression on me; I shall never forget his countenance!" The Englishman smiled imperceptibly. — Alexandre Dumas

The hardest thing to do in politics is campaign as someone you aren't. People can spot an imposter from a mile away. — Chuck Todd

I don't deliberately look for something dark or bleak or disconnected, in fact that's not something I'm even conscious of in the work as I'm making it. I'm always trying to create beauty, reveal hope, show the sense of longing that exists in isolation and loneliness, and capture the search for something greater inside all of my subjects. — Gregory Crewdson

My father was second-generation Chinese-American, born in 1923 in California. My mother emigrated to the States from China when she was in her early twenties, in part to escape the political turmoil in China. — Tess Gerritsen

Faith is continually discarding the absurd, even in the face of the unknown. — Anonymous

Some look at the hills from far away and see only the barren lands; some travel amongst the hills and find the most beautiful valleys! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Baudelaire was far more than a great poet. He established the keyboard of a sensibility that still lives within us, if we are not total brutes. — Roberto Calasso