Deafie Quotes & Sayings

All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great works of art. — Marcel Proust

Dialogic is not to be identified with love. But love without dialogic, without real outgoing to the other, reaching to the other, the love remaining with itself - this is called Lucifer. — Martin Buber

As of 2011, it cost about $5,000 to launch a tech startup. — Peter Diamandis

Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions. — Adam D'Angelo

I want to give just a slight indication of the influence the book has had. I knew that George Orwell, in his second novel, A Clergyman's Daughter , published in 1935, had borrowed from Joyce for his nighttime scene in Trafalgar Square, where Deafie and Charlie and Snouter and Mr. Tallboys and The Kike and Mrs. Bendigo and the rest of the bums and losers keep up a barrage of song snatches, fractured prayers, curses, and crackpot reminiscences. But only on my most recent reading of Ulysses did I discover, in the middle of the long and intricate mock-Shakespeare scene at the National Library, the line 'Go to! You spent most of it in Georgina Johnson's bed, clergyman's daughter.' So now I think Orwell quarried his title from there, too. — Christopher Hitchens

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Judgment of eye, speed and attack are the basis of victory. — Alexander Suvorov

Of course WE never had to do nude scenes. I'm glad, too, because I'm susceptible to pneumonia. — Irene Dunne

All forests are one... They are all echoes of the first forest that gave birth to Mystery when the world began. — Charles De Lint