Daviot Aberdeenshire Quotes & Sayings

Not to love is in love an infallible means of being loved. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Art comes after the fact, as a witness to certain things that have happened. — Raymond Pettibon

If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects, make some compensation, and render them the admiration of mankind. — David Hume

When you're the director and the writer, you never have to remember your lines, and there's no one to call you on it. On Garden State I did different lines on every take, just making crap up. And it was great each time. — Zach Braff

There is turmoil under the heavens. The prospects are excellent. — Mao Zedong

In the United States, nobody needs to remind people of their own role or their own power in creating the future they want to see. Perhaps it is something that is almost written into your cultural DNA: a desire to answer your Founding Fathers' call to create a 'more perfect union.' — Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art. — Sigmar Polke

Humor could not flourish in a wholly serious and rational atmosphere. — Raymond Smullyan

Agricultural science is largely a race between the emergence of new pests and the emergence of new techniques for their control. — Aldo Leopold

Aeneas comes to her court a suppliant, impoverished and momentarily timid. He is a good-looking man. If anything, his scars emphasize that. The aura of his divine failure wraps around him like a cloak. Dido feels the tender contempt of the strong for the unlucky, but this is mixed with something else, a hunger that worms through her bones and leaves them hollow, to be filled with fire. — Kij Johnson

Every city has its own customs, and Tabat is no different. They grow from and are shaped by the circumstances around them, the history and the geography and what is plentiful or scarce, which exert a much greater influence than any individual ever will, even the Duke. — Cat Rambo