Debanne Dominique Quotes & Sayings

The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents. — Pliny The Elder

You can get a thousand no's from people, and only one "yes" from God. — Tyler Perry

When I dream, I dream of him. — Libba Bray

People tend to look great if they feel great. — Cate Blanchett

The book, I think, like the map before it, like the clock, created or help create a revolution in the human mind in the way our habits of mind and ultimately the way we use our brains. — Nicholas G. Carr

I've done a lot of stage in my life, but I never had to dominate a stage for three hours. — Dennis Christopher

The job is not to succeed but fail more interesting than the last time - - in a more subtle fashion or in a more intriguing way. — T. J. Jagodowski

The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Wind rippled the trees, the darkness seeming to gather itself closer around him. — Rick Burroughs

People often mistake tenderheartedness for indulgence, as if being kind to themselves leads to lethargy - sitting around the house all day eating bonbons and wearing muumuus and pink rollers. This is simply not true. I often hear a variation on this statement: "If I'm not intolerant of my shortcomings, how can I ever expect to change them?" And the answer is, By doing the opposite of what you think you need to do to change. By being kind to yourself. — Geneen Roth

... I looked at those patient huddlers on the [Embassy] benches who had hardly moved, and a horrible irony hit me: they wanted so badly to get into the States; I wanted so badly to stay out. — Elaine Dundy

I just want to make scary movies," Jerome replied. "With occasional nudity. — Jeffrey Eugenides

The third quality that is needed for a scientist to become a public icon is wisdom. Besides being a famous joker and a famous genius, Feynman was also a wise human being whose answers to serious questions made sense. — Freeman Dyson

Practice. Learn and then unlearn - that's the trick in finding your own style of playing. You can't merely emulate, you have to innovate, or at the very least create your own path into the process. — Carrie Brownstein

On the box he had a stack of magazines. Without seeing the covers, I knew they were pornography. Precious finds in the days before the internet. The combination of glossy pages and sperm is the smell of boyhood for men my age. You used to find them hidden in the bushes. I guess kids stole them from the shops and then were too scared to take them home. Sometimes they'd be damaged by rain or fire (masturbation and setting fire to things: the two great impulses of boyhood), the paper as brittle as an old man's skin. Meanwhile, as I found out years later, girls were reading 'romance novels' in the comfort of their bedrooms. Men, have you ever read those things? Damn. — James Hutchings