Dattebane Quotes & Sayings

Every one's got their own ways of working. I know that. I give my inspectors a free hand always. Every one's got to find out for themselves what method suits them best. — Agatha Christie

In a change effort, culture comes last, not first. — John P. Kotter

Depression doesn't take away your talents - it just makes them harder to find. — Lady Gaga

My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best - it's so embarrassing, isn't it? I was always the best at everything. — Francesca Annis

My parents are going to kill me!" "That seems rather harsh ... — Garth Nix

Art is the signature of man. — G.K. Chesterton

The whole world is my family. — Pope John XXIII

Education is a light for self awaken. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Unrequited love is like buying a dress that you can't fit into but you promise yourself you'll diet for - you can't think about the dress, only about the fact that your body is too big for it. — Kate Le Vann

And could you, from a place of love, actually stand up and, use force, to give someone back, the suffering, they were trying to put on you? Would I do it? Maybe it would even be, an act of fierce compassion, as Enso Roshi sometimes talked about, to not take it any more. To not cow down, anymore. To let my father know, the tyrant, the aggressor, that if he hits me, I'm going to hit back, and hard. — T. Scott McLeod

At evening when the lamp is lit,
The tired Human People sit
And doze, or turn with solemn looks
The speckled pages of their books.
Then I, the Dangerous Kitten, prowl
And in the Shadows softly growl,
And roam about the farthest floor
Where Kitten never trod before.
And, crouching in the jungle damp,
I watch the Human Hunter's camp,
Ready to spring with fearful roar
As soon as I shall hear them snore.
And then with stealthy tread I crawl
Into the dark and trackless hall,
Where 'neath the Hat-tree's shadows deep
Umbrellas fold their wings and sleep.
A cuckoo calls - and to their dens
The People climb like frightened hens,
And I'm alone - and no one cares
In Darkest Africa - downstairs. — Oliver Herford

We are superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around. — Ezra Taft Benson

Of course the decision to commit British forces in Iraq was, for many MPs, a wrenching choice. However, our responsibility in the face of a growing ISIS threat is not to be paralysed by history, but to learn the correct lessons from it. — Douglas Alexander

The idea was that we would decide the order when we looked at the proofs. I remember Brion Gysin saying "Well, why change it? It's perfect the way it is, the way it came from the printer." Made one major change, that is, the first chapter that came from the printers, which would be the beginning, we moved to the end. The first chapter became the last chapter. There's no actual cutups in Naked Lunch. — William S. Burroughs

And when the fog's over and the stars and the moon come out at night it'll be a beautiful sight. — Jack Kerouac