Decentius Quotes & Sayings

Matisse was my God. I'm a French artist, that's for sure. I am color-oriented and what you might call a composer. I am not pouring my guts out; I keep them inside. — Francoise Gilot

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I WAS HERE — Gayle Forman

I am a dull fellow ... my person reeks, my conversation consists of insipid platitudes. — Jack Vance

The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact, only one person did. — Isaac Asimov

When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. Some angels got jealous and chopped him into millions of pieces, but still he glittered and hummed. So they beat him down to nothing but sparks but each little spark had a shine and a song. So they covered each one over with mud. And the lonesomeness in the sparks make them hunt for one another. — Zora Neale Hurston

The best aid to give is intellectual aid, a gift of useful knowledge. A gift of knowledge is infinitely preferable to a gift of material things. — E.F. Schumacher

Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things. — Tahir Shah

It is time for thee to be gone, lest the age more decent in its wantonness should laugh at thee and drive thee of the stage.
[Lat., Tempus abire tibi est, ne ...
Rideat et pulset lasciva decentius aetas.] — Horace