Demeaux Pics Quotes & Sayings

Its good make others laugh than laughing at them — Joshua John

(This is why it is so frustrating that funding for arts programs in schools has been decimated. And those cuts stem from a fundamental misconception that art classes are about learning to draw. In fact, they are about learning to see.) Whether — Ed Catmull

On the day when we are able to foresee inventions we will be living in a state where everything conceivable has been invented. Our — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

In later years, it was common, and I was guilty in this respect, to question the motives of those who joined the new British armies at the outbreak of the Great War, but it must, in their honour and fairness to their memories, be said that they were motivated by the highest purpose, and died in their tens of thousands in Flanders and Gallipoli, believing that they were giving their lives in the cause of human liberty everywhere, including Ireland. — Sean Lemass

The film festival measured a mile in length, from the Martinez to the Vieux Port, where sales executives tucked into their platters of fruits de mer, but was only fifty yards deep. For a fortnight the Croisette and its grand hotels willingly became a facade, the largest stage set in the world. Without realizing it, the crowds under the palm trees were extras recruited to play their traditional roles. As they cheered and hooted, they were far more confident than the film actors on display, who seemed ill at ease when they stepped from their limos, like celebrity criminals ferried to a mass trial by jury at the Palais, a full-scale cultural Nuremberg furnished with film clips of the atrocities they had helped to commit. — J.G. Ballard

Don't you have somewhere you need to be?" she gritted. "The kitchen? The sewers? The fires of hell? — Alexandra Ivy

If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged. — Richard Dawkins

No matter how much it's growing, the Internet still is a pretty specific demographic. It doesn't necessarily represent the general populace. — Andy Samberg

I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range. — Jessye Norman

I matched my heated tone with one of pure ice. "I believe I did attempt to relate to you the facts of my calls and you interrupted me with a rather magnificent display of temper much as you are doing now. If you do not have all the facts of the case perhaps you have no one but yourself to blame." Brisbane opened his mouth and shut it with a snap. His mouth remained closed but I could hear him muttering under his breath. "What are you saying?" "I am counting. To one hundred. In Cantonese. — Deanna Raybourn

There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Something rose in Oscar's chest, like a flower blossoming all at once. It grew until it filled him and threatened to spill over everywhere. The words [he] spoke touched a longing so deep Oscar hadn't even known it was there. — Anne Ursu

Superstition is something that someone else believes in but you do not. Many of our own beliefs seem superstitious to others, and undoubtedly many of the accepted truths of the twenty-first century will be considered superstitions by the twenty-second century. — James Peoples

Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard. — Alice Walker