Delafontaine Quotes & Sayings

Waking up to an alarm clock is getting punched in the face by time. — J.R. Rim

The gods gave me a father who ruled over me and rid me of any trace of arrogance and showed me that one can live in a palace without bodyguards, extravagant attire, chandeliers, statues, and other luxuries. He taught me that it is possible to live instead pretty much in the manner of a private citizen without losing any of the dignity and authority a ruler must possess to discharge his imperial duties effectively. — Marcus Aurelius

Good friends, how then are meditation and wisdom alike? They are like the lamp and the light it gives forth. If there is a lamp there is light; if there is no lamp there is no light. The lamp is the substance of light; the light is the function of the lamp. Thus, although they have two names, in substance they are not two. Meditation and wisdom are also like this. — Huineng

Experience means nothing in the face of passion. — Jennifer Chance

A poem doesn't do everything for you.
You are supposed to go on with your thinking.
You are supposed to enrich
the other person's poem with your extensions,
your uniquely personal understandings,
thus making the poem serve you. — Gwendolyn Brooks

Only very few men have the gift of thinking new and original ideas and of changing the traditional body of creeds and doctrines. — Ludwig Von Mises

Science has rolled its war wagons over the crushed myths of so many religious beliefs. It has marshaled its mechanics to explain the motions of the sun, moon, and stars. It has mapped the heavens, leaving no place for gods to live. — Walker Evans

We can look, but we'd better not touch. — Steven Tyler

Music is the one place in mass media where kids editorialize to kids. — Don Williams

The gaming experience on Windows Vista is going to go beyond any of the gaming consoles and anything that's been done before. — Jim Allchin

It is easier to be grateful for the things we have than to the people who have helped us get them. — Michael Josephson

There is nothing quite so gentle, deep, and irrational as running
and nothing quite so savage, so wild. — Bernd Heinrich

Who has more leisure than a worm? — Seneca The Younger

[Before introducing the nominees for best animated film] If you're at the awards party with the guys who made the Lego Movie, now would be a good time to distract them. — Neil Patrick Harris

I came out of the mall one day, and a guy was standing there with a coat hanger in his window, and I couldn't stop myself. I asked the stupid question. 'You lock your keys in the car?' 'Nope, just washed it, gonna hang it up to dry.' — Bill Engvall