Dashiel Quotes & Sayings

And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is — Larry Wall

The fact that the Hebrew word 'adam', meaning 'man', is identical with Adam as the name of the father of Seth plays a fundamental role in fusing the three stories (Gen 2:7-3:24, 4:1, 4:25 and 5:1) in one. — Kamal Salibi

Quality time is not the same as the everydayness of being together. Let's neither glorify nor undervalue. — Don Elium

She told me if I clean all the ashes out of the grate, then I'll be able to help my sisters get ready for the bal." "It's Christmas, Dashiel. Can't you give that atitude a rest?"
"Merry Christmas, Dad. And thanks for the presents."
"What presents?"
"I'm sorry - those were all from Mom, weren't they? — Rachel Cohn

At this time - we're in a dramatic crisis - euro bonds are precisely the wrong answer. They lead us into a debt union, not a stability union. Each country has to take its own steps to reduce its debt. — Angela Merkel

Books are not luxuries. They are the meat and drink for the mind. — Andrew Taylor

Much of the discovery of the world was based on failure rather than on success
on tactical errors and pipe dreams. — David Grann

We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in, and otherwise we have returned home to seek our own lives in peace. — Colin Powell

The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy. — Kenneth H. Cooper

The Fears are created by the people near you. — Deyth Banger

I haven't met a cake I didn't like. — Amy Clipston

Hammett was the ace performer ... He is said to have lacked heart; yet the story he himself thought the most of [The Glass Key] is the record of a man's devotion to a friend. He was spare, frugal, hard-boiled, but he did over and over again what only the best writers can ever do at all. He wrote scenes that seemed never to have been written before. — Raymond Chandler