Daniilovichi Quotes & Sayings

Time reveals all translation to be paraphrase. — Richard Howard

And at this very moment, like a miracle, the rail-bus appeared. We waved our arms frantically, hardly daring to hope that it would stop. It did stop. We scrambled thankfully on board.
That is the irony of travel. You spend your boyhood dreaming of a magic, impossibly distant day when you will cross the Equator, when your eyes will behold Quito. And then, in the slow prosaic process of life, that day undramatically dawns - and finds you sleepy, hungry and dull. The Equator is just another valley; you aren't sure which and you don't much care. Quito is just another railroad station, with fuss about baggage and taxis and tips. And the only comforting reality, amidst all this picturesque noisy strangeness, is to find a clean pension run by Czech refugees and sit down in a cozy Central European parlor to a lunch of well-cooked Wiener Schnitzel. — Christopher Isherwood

You never help anyone by being a sounding board for their problems or complaints. — Esther Hicks

We've all been tired and thought we wanted a long vacation when all we needed was a few days off, but didn't know it. — George Cukor

From ourselves, she completed, with a most adorable smile, whimsical as I had never seen it, for it was whimsical with love. — Jack London

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence. — Marguerite Gardiner

You can rely too much, my love, on the unspoken things. And the wry smile. I have that smile myself, and I've learned the silence too, over the years. Along with your expressions, like No notion and Of necessity. What happens, though, when it is all unsaid, is that you wake up one morning, no, it's more like late one afternoon, and it's not just unsaid, it's gone. That's all. Just gone. I remember this word, that look, that small inflection, after all this. I used to hold them, trust them, read them like a rune. Like a sign that there was a house, a billet, a civilization where we were. I look back and I think I was just there all alone. Collecting wisps and signs. — Renata Adler

He's not his immaculate self today. He's a little rough around the edges, probably from a few bad nights' sleep. His mustard shirt is the ugliest colour I have ever seen. His tie is badly knotted, his jaw is shadowed with stubble. His hair is a mess and has a devil's horn on one side. He's practically a Gamin today. He looks divine and he's looking at me with a memory in his eyes. — Sally Thorne

Terrorism is the intentional use of, or threat to use violence against civilians or against civilian targets, in order to attain political aims. — Boaz Ganor

Magic happens when you tell the universe what you want it to do for you; miracles happen when you ask how you can be of service to the universe. — Marianne Williamson

While I was still going to embrace social media, I knew I had to do things that nobody else was doing. I decided I had to meet as many people as I could - face to face. While most artists would email galleries, I would show up in the lobby. Instead of liking an art show or exhibition, I would go there and meet everyone. And while most would send a magazine a press kit, I go and meet the editor. This notion of face to face contact became my mantra. — Mark Edward

I'm real good with math, with numbers, like my dad was. I'm pretty much dialed in. — Hulk Hogan

So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence. — Sun Tzu