Dendriscocaulon Quotes & Sayings

Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones. — Dana Gioia

Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided
'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear. — William Shakespeare

The day is divided into two important sections: Mealtimes and everything else. — Merrill Markoe

You can either make it come around or you can't. By the time we would be ready to record a song, we would know for sure that it was the best way we could do it. — Levon Helm

The most important thing in making money is not letting your losses get out of hand. — Martin S. Schwartz

Couples will no longer spend their nights in their houses dedicated to habitation and reception, the customary social reason for banalization. The chamber of love will be more remote from the center of the city: it will completely naturally re-create for the partners the notion of ex-centricity, in a place less open to the light, more hidden, in order to return to the atmosphere of the secret. The contrary move, the search for a center of thought, will proceed by the same technique. — Tom McDonough

Rules?" said Roark. "Here are my rules: what can be done with one substance must never be done with another. No two materials are alike. No two sites on earth are alike. No two buildings have the same purpose. The purpose, the site, the material determine the shape. Nothing can be reasonable or beautiful unless it's made by one central idea, and the idea sets every detail. A building is alive, like a man. Its integrity is to follow its own truth, its one single theme, and to serve its own single purpose. A man doesn't borrow pieces of his body. A building doesn't borrow hunks of its soul. Its maker gives it the soul and every wall, window and stairway to express it. — Ayn Rand

Thirty years people have been asking for a lawful system of immigration to end this lawlessness, and government on both parties have refused to give it to them. — Jeff Sessions

If I'm at somebody's house and they have magazines on the table and people are chatting, I feel almost a physical urge to start reading the magazines instead of talking to people. — Curtis Sittenfeld

For a certain type of person, running toward the things that scare them is the only thing that gives them any sense of control. — Elliott James

Bribery quickly became an integral part of the Russian way of doing business, and the expense of buying a government official was considered the most important part of a new enterprise's starting capital. — David Satter

If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping. — Joseph Campbell

That scripture did also tear and rend my soul in the midst of these distractions, The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. Isa. lvii. 20, 21. — John Bunyan

Blaze himself was pretty sure he himself was going to hell, as were most other people. It was a dirty world, and the longer you lived, the dirtier you got. — Richard Bachman