Dancker Danckerts Quotes & Sayings

I do have bad hair days. If I fall asleep with it slightly damp, I wake up and it'll all be piled up on top in a mess. — Georgia Jagger

The last story you should write is the most important story. You should start with a story that is just an amusing, entertaining, fun story to write and learn your writing chops with the least important things before you start applying them to the most important things. — Chuck Palahniuk

This terrible frustration that we so often feel in the West in not being able to articulate and express ourselves. — John Gimlette

Before God and in conscience, Muslims cannot satisfy themselves by repeating what the texts say and then snap their fingers at daily social realities: that would be to speak of an ideal while at the same time blind themselves as to their daily betrayal. — Tariq Ramadan

If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If you repress rather than unlock the potential of large groups of Americans, what's that going to do to our economy? It's going to contract, not expand. — John Prendergast

The laws of certain states ... give an ownership in the service of Negroes as personal property ... But being men, by the laws of God and nature, they were capable of acquiring liberty - and when the captor in war ... thought fit to give them liberty, the gift was not only valid, but irrevocable. — Alexander Hamilton

History, which undertakes to record the transactions of the past, for the instruction of future ages, would ill deserve that honourable office if she condescended to plead the cause of tyrants, or to justify the maxims of persecution. — Edward Gibbon

Dear to girls' hearts is their own beauty. — Ovid

Things that I can do myself, I either do by myself, or teach a willing undergraduate who doesn't know how to do those things by doing it for me. Things that I can't do myself, my graduate students should be doing. — John Maeda

I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one. — Mike Tyson

Mercy is not what every criminal is entitled to. What he is entitled to is justice. — Lord Hailsham

When you only dream of doing one thing for the majority of your life, it's almost unfathomable to think about doing anything else. You don't know how. It's all you ever wanted and you'll not only fight like hell to get there, you'll fight like hell to stay. — J. Sterling