Dendrinos Traverse Quotes & Sayings

Things are opaque to us, and we are opaque to ourselves. — Jacques Maritain

Not all journalists are really journalists. They ask such stupid questions sometimes, especially the newer ones, and because ... these people can't tell if you're joking around, you just can't have any sense of humour; you really can't. — Ray Liotta

Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross between a benevolent dictator and benign negligence - you should just let kids crack on with it. — Clare Balding

Unfortunately robots capable of manufacturing robots do not exist. That would be the philosopher's stone, the squaring of the circle. — Ernst Junger

That's the thing about parents, I'm beginning to realize. You don't have to see them all that much to imitate them. — Leigh Newman

Culturally, though not theologically, I'm a Christian. I was born a Protestant of the white Anglo-Saxon persuasion. And while I do love that great teacher of peace who was called Jesus, and while I do reserve the right to ask myself in certain trying situations what indeed He would do, I can't swallow that one fixed rule of Christianity insisting that Christ is the only path to God. Strictly speaking, then, I cannot call myself a Christian. Most of the Christians I know accept my feelings on this with grace and open-mindedness. Then again, most of the Christians I know don't speak very strictly. To those who do speak (and think) strictly, all I can do here is offer my regrets for any hurt feelings and now excuse myself from their business. — Elizabeth Gilbert

A dramatic public display, Kay. The dam began to crumble with Columbine. It's not new, just the classification is. People have become addicted to attention, to fame. Profoundly disturbed individuals will kill and die for it. — Patricia Cornwell

A leader, who divides his own people, contaminates his platform and begins to destroy his own territory. — Archibald Marwizi

You can't believe what a lovely planet we have until you see her from outside. — Robert A. Heinlein

Ever the collector of treasure maps that promised the world but led nowhere. — Justina Chen

If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day. — Paulo Coelho

Paternity is a long way from fatherhood. — James MacDonald

You know I used to be a heartthrob, and now I'm a coronary. — Davy Jones

When I was growing up in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, I sold doughnuts, popcorn and Kool Aid every day after school so that my family had some money and I could pay my school fees. It was a tough life. — George Weah

I was back in comfortable plain skirts again, but they looked at me anyway as they went away, not with hostility, but not the way any of them would ever have looked at a woodcutter's girl from Dvernik. It was the way I had looked at Prince Marek, at first. They looked at me and saw someone out of a story, who might ride by and be stared at, but didn't belong in their lives at all. — Naomi Novik