Dejours Of Society Quotes & Sayings

I don't get into 'becauses.' When you come into a studio you see a number of works. My habit is to go to the one I like most. If you start to say, 'because,' you get into art jargon. — Clement Greenberg

Happiness is always on the other side of being teachable. — Shannon L. Alder

[T]he only thing that has power over you is what you can't say, even to yourself. — Naomi Jackson

Some comedians really are funnier than others. Some people really are more beautiful than others. But these are true only because of the kinds of creatures we happen to be; the perceptual apparatus - apparati - that we happen to have. — Jonathan Haidt

Whether you eat meat of not, you can be part of this decision to limit the meat industry destroying our planet's resources. — Stella McCartney

Each of us has a purpose for living beyond our own survival and pleasure. Every individual is like a thread in a beautiful tapestry with a vital contribution to make, not only to the sustenance of life as we know it, but in the creation and development of more beneficial expressions of life. — John Templeton

A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak. — Edward Abbey

The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation. — Jackie Joyner-Kersee

No guts, no story. — Chris Brady

As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived. — Daniel Morgan

All great writers share one thing in common:

They finished their books. — M. Kirin

The highest virtue seems as low as a valley. — Laozi

Sometimes you want to turn the page, stealthy, to see what is going to happen next. — Kambiz Shabankareh

I would come, many years later, to understand why 'To Kill A Mockingbird' is considered 'an important novel', but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked the mysteries of childhood, of treasures discovered in trees, and games played with an exotic summer friend. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie