Dani Ardor Quotes & Sayings

The people of your century no longer require the service of composers. A composer is as useful to a person in a jogging suit as a dinsoaur turd in the middle of his runway. — Frank Zappa

But TV has changed completely. It's not until you come into people's homes that everyone says, 'You're a success now.' — Gabriel Mann

We are each other's guardians. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation. — Mary Roberts Rinehart

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

In the country places of Ireland, writing is held in certain awe: a writer was a dangerous man from whom they instinctively recoiled. — Patrick Kavanagh

I don't think many actors are that good, to be honest. I certainly don't think I am. — Rupert Everett

He's such a workaholic. Never stops to reflect, smell the roses. It's just kill, kill, protect, protect with that man. — Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

Books don't live and die by awards. You don't listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards. — Junot Diaz

All of the elements of the comic way tend to spread to others, insinuating joy where it was previously absent. Conversation has a way of leaping among persons, as it does at parties and celebratory gatherings. Storytelling always begets storytelling. It is difficult to watch others at play without wanting to join them. This is not only a human phenomenon, for researchers have consistently noted that animals at play are often imitated by other animals. So wherever it is possible to initiate a playful activity, it will have a good chance of replicating itself through other parts of the system. — Joseph Rusling Meeker

Faced with a new mutation in an organism, or a fundamental change in its living conditions, the biologist is frequently in no position whatever to predict its future prospects. He has to wait and see. For instance, the hairy mammoth seems to have been an admirable animal, intelligent and well-accoutered. Now that it is extinct, we try to understand why it failed. I doubt that any biologist thinks he could have predicted that failure. Fitness and survival are by nature estimates of past performance. — George Wald

Everybody should espouse three or four harmless crank theories for the pure pleasure of having something harmless to be cranky about. And when a theory of this sort proves correct, it is a true moment for celebration. — Alexei Panshin

Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead. — Ann-Marie MacDonald

Surely if we have learned anything from the history of morals it is that the thing to do with a moral quandary is not to hide it. — H. L. A. Hart