Danfield New York Quotes & Sayings

I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States. — Robert Matsui

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. — Christian Nestell Bovee

It's not the part of being a celebrity that's so attractive to me. It's being recognized for your accomplishments and what you've done ... becoming closer to what you want to achieve in life. — Brandon Adams

An almost infallible means of saving yourself from the desire of self-destruction is always to have something to do.
Creech, the commentator on Lucretius, marked upon his manuscripts: "N. B. Must hang myself when I have finished." He kept his word with himself that he might have the pleasure of ending like his author. If he had undertaken a commentary upon Ovid he would have lived longer. — Voltaire

Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license. — John Desmond Bernal

We think of lions and wolves as savage because they kill; but they must kill, or starve. Humans kill other animals for sport, to satisfy their curiosity, to beautify their bodies, and to please their palates. — Peter Singer

By adopting the other trade, we place ourselves by the side of those whose measures tend not only to the improvement of their own subjects, but to the emancipation of the slave everywhere. — Henry Charles Carey

How do you keep all the balls you got dancing in the air from crashing down on your fucking head, Rousseau?"
"Centuries of practice? — Heather R. Blair

I'd like to thank the Academy for my lifetime achievement award that I will eventually get. — Donald O'Connor

I believe that for permanent survival, man must balance science with other qualities of life, qualities of body and spirit as well as those of mind - qualities he cannot develop when he lets mechanics and luxury insulate him too greatly from the earth to which he was born. — Charles Lindbergh

He was doctrinally convinced that there was a total absence of merit in himself; but that doctrinal conviction may be held without pain when the sense of demerit does not take a distinct shape in memory and revive the tingling of shame or the pang of remorse. Nay, it may be held with intense satisfaction when the depth of our sinning is but a measure for the depth of forgiveness, and a clenching proof that we are peculiar instruments of the divine intention. — George Eliot

Well, there's nothing strange about Americans as a whole. But, Angelinos are different! — Paul Hogan

Government in general, any government anywhere, is a thing of exquisite comicality to a discerning mind. — Joseph Conrad

The new King of Narnia helped both the children up: that is, he gave Digory a rough heave and set Polly as gently and daintily on the horse's back as if she were made of china and might break. — C.S. Lewis