Dantay Quotes & Sayings

Be gful to the man who cares nothing for your remorse. You are his equal. — Rene Char

I'm neutral on lying, seeing as how there's times when the truth just hurts people. — Orson Scott Card

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse. — Aristotle.

One Dilbert Blog reader noted that current research shows that happiness causes success more than success causes happiness. That makes sense to me. There's plenty of research about people having a baseline of happiness that doesn't vary much with circumstances. And given that happy people are typically optimistic, energetic, and fun to work with, I can see how happiness would lead to success. — Scott Adams

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. — Thomas A. Edison

Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned ... Everything is war. Me say war. That until the're no longer 1st class and 2nd class citizens of any nation ... Until the color of a man's skin is of no more significa ... nce than the color of his eyes, me say war. That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race me say war! — Bob Marley

Everything was ready to go. Except for her. — Amanda Hocking

An observation that people who live permanently in an adoptive country tend to progressively generalize the bad and particularize the good, that is, attribute the bad traits in people they encounter to the national trait of the natives, and the good things to the individual.
This holds equally well for French people living in the U.S. as it does for Americans living in France. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

For me, something dangerous would be playing thebabe in a huge studio film. That would be terrifying because I'dstink ... I want to explore human beings on as deep a level as I can. — Jennifer Jason Leigh

I can't survive,' he once told me of his refusal to come indoors,'if I can't hear the orchestra the way I like to hear it. — Steve Lopez

In writing. Don't use adjectives which merely tell us how you want us to feel about the thing you are describing. I mean, instead of telling us a thing was "terrible," describe it so that we'll be terrified. Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers, "Please will you do my job for me."
[Letter to Joan Lancaster, 26 June 1956] — C.S. Lewis

You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it ... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane. — Roger Ebert

Then draw near to nature. Pretend you are the very first man and then write what you see and experience, what you love and lose. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood. — Hesiod