Danyang Quotes & Sayings

'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again. — Karl Marlantes

It is necessary to learn to turn your falls and misfortunes into God's power and might in order
to have prosperity. — Sunday Adelaja

But like they say, it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years. And I sure as hell was going to make my life count. — Jay McLean

Shakespeare in Love ... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent. — Anita Diament

Yeats knew nothing about life: it was all symbols
& Wordsworthian egotism: Yeats on Cemetery Ridge
would not have been scared, like you & me,
he would have been, before the bullet that was his,
studying the movements of the birds,
said disappointed & amazed Henry. — John Berryman

Being superficially different is the goal of so many of the products we see ... rather than trying to innovate and genuinely taking the time, investing the resources and caring enough to try and make something better. — Jonathan Ive

Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off. — Jerry Saltz

On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead. — Stephen Chbosky