Deramus Travel Quotes & Sayings

I'm world-famous ... all over Canada. — Mordecai Richler

Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their whole lives in the course of a single day. From the point of view of a mayfly, human beings are stolid, boring, almost entirely immovable, offering hardly a hint that they ever do anything. From the point of view of a star, a human being is a tiny flash, one of billions of brief lives flickering tenuously on the surface of a strangely cold, anomalously solid, exotically remote sphere of silicate and iron. — Carl Sagan

When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend. — Mark Twain

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women. — Carroll O'Connor

If you're not afraid, how can you be really brave? — Tove Jansson

When the Grateful Dead needed a quality sound system to deliver our sonic payload, I learned electronics and speaker design. — Mickey Hart

Age may catch up with you, just never let it over take you. — Benny Bellamacina

The well-adjusted make poor prophets. — Eric Hoffer

Disruptive innovation is entrepreneurs changing their industry with unique creativity. — Onyi Anyado

Dinners at Stony Cross Park were famously lavish, and this one was no exception. Eight courses of fish, game, poultry, and beef were served, accompanied by fresh flower arrangements that were brought to the table with each new remove. They began with turtle soup, broiled salmon with capers, perch and mullet in cream, and succulent Jon Dory fish dressed with a delicate shrimp sauce. The next course consisted of peppered venison, herb-garnished ham, gently fried sweetbreads floating in steaming gravy, and crisp-skinned roast fowl. And so on and so forth, until the guests were stuffed and lethargic, their faces flushed from the constant replenishing of their wineglasses by attentive footmen. The dinner was concluded with a succession of platters filled with almond cheesecakes, lemon puddings, and rice souffles. — Lisa Kleypas

The slavery that survived long past emancipation was an offense permitted by the nation, perpetrated across an enormous region over many years and involving thousands of extraordinary characters. Some of that story is in fact lost, but every incident in this book is true. Each character was a real person. Every direct quotation comes from a sworn statement or a record documented at the time. — Douglas A. Blackmon

I've secretly always wanted to be an astronaut. — Denzel Whitaker

A true artist sees the rays of the sun, while others are still groping in the dark. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume. — Eugene Delacroix