Dekutoga Quotes & Sayings

My joy is watching people being joyful. — Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki

It's just being who you want to be, even if you are a poor kid making loud music
about being unhappy! — John Darnielle

I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references. — Nathan Fillion

What is it with young women and exclamation points and smiley faces! So afraid of appearing somber, always wanting to appear light and happy and sparkling, even when they are dying inside. Not ever being able to escape the mask that smiles. She wants to write, really write someday. But she is not fully formed. So she does not write. Not really. Unless attempting to live is a form of attempting to write. The agony of becoming. This is what she experiences. The young girl. She would like to be someone, anyone else. She wants, vaguely, to be something more than she is. But she does not know what that is, or how one goes about doing such a thing. — Kate Zambreno

But it's just that he is basically a very honest person. That makes him uncompromising sometimes. — Barack Obama

Every device employed to bolster individual freedom must have as its chief purpose the impairment of the absoluteness of power. The indications are that such an impairment is brought about not by strengthening the individual and pitting him against the possessors of power, but by distributing and diversifying power and pitting one category or unit of power against the other. Where power is one, the defeated individual, however strong and resourceful, can have no refuge and no recourse. — Eric Hoffer

Brigham Young observed, "Man's machinery makes things alike" (JD 9:370), while God gives to seemingly like individuals pleasing differences. Secularism is no friend of righteous individuality. — Neal A. Maxwell

Believe me, you can be in the middle of a beautiful take and the next thing you know you're awash in people crossing the street. You can't even find your actors. — Victor Levin

The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It's useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy. — Aaron Copland

Eating lighter makes you lighter. No one can wave a magic wand. — Martine McCutcheon

No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training. — Hermann Ebbinghaus

History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood. — Friedrich Nietzsche

[Politicans] are salespeople. Instead of rotisserie ovens they are selling this idea of preemptive war or social-security reforms. — Jon Stewart