Dejis House Quotes & Sayings

Iconic clothing has been secularized ... A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as the blood he hopes to shed. Seen on a coat-hanger, with no man inside it, the uniform loses all its blustering significance and, to the innocent eye seduced by decorative colour and tactile braid, it is as abstract in symbolic information as a parasol to an Eskimo. It becomes simply magnificent. — Angela Carter

Life is an inside-out game. The truth is that all our situations and circumstances have their beginnings in our minds. Our idea of who we are creates who we become - the great news is you can change your self-impressions and change your life. — Mark Victor Hansen

Five minutes after you die you'll know how you should have lived. — Leonard Ravenhill

Here's the beauty of a camera: you don't have to come up with words for what you're looking at ... Maybe another angle is needed sometimes. When we're burned out from writing, we can photograph or draw, look at the world in a different way, and photographers could try writing what they see. — Barbara Abercrombie

Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball. — Norm Cash

Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness. — Natalia Ginzburg

The liberation of Iraq, which is already hard to justify from the perspective of American interests, at least had the virtue of freeing Iraqis from a brutal dictator. Despite all the anarchy and violence, life has gotten better for most Iraqis. — Timothy Noah

I studied him and realized that madness is the last defence of the mind when it can't hope to reconcile itself with events; I too was standing between routine and the unknowable. — Derek Raymond

Critical design aims to really push the boundaries of design and to reconsider the element of fiction. — Nelly Ben Hayoun