Derian House Quotes & Sayings

The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening. — Adi Shankara

The truth is what we say it is ... prove to me this desk is not a cow! — Ray S. Jones

Mick required far less hand-holding than Michael. Signing the Stones, though, had required a full frontal assault worthy of General Patton, one of my heroes. The final battle exploded at the Ritz Hotel in Paris back in '83. After months of relentless pursuit, I had them. All they had to do was sign when suddenly at 3 A.M. Mick goes mental and calls me a "stupid motherfuckin' record executive." I lose it. I reach for his throat. I have a vision of punching out all ninety-eight pounds of him. I stop myself, envisioning tomorrow's headline - "Yetnikoff Kills Jagger." Jagger relents, signs and from then on it's wine and roses. It was Mick - wily and witty Mick - who later that year plotted with my girlfriend, the one called Boom Boom, to throw me a surprise fiftieth birthday bash where Henny Youngman emceed and Jon Peters, Barbra — Walter Yetnikoff

Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at once, all he has to do now is to 'educate the people' so that they will have but one common mind to delude. — Richard Mitchell

Those who use our public services should be able to deal directly with those who manage and deliver them. — Charles Kennedy

If there is a substantial difference between a gay couple and a childless heterosexual couple, I'm unable to see it. — Daniel Keys Moran

So she talked, and Noah, to his credit, did not quibble. He interrupted once or twice, but only for the sake of amplification or clarification, never because he doubted the essential veracity of her story. She told him all of it, from the pod, to the aircraft, to Eunice and the Tantors. She told him what she had learned of Eunice's nature, and why she had no reason to doubt that she had been talking to a machine. She told him of Eunice's amnesia, and the thing called Arachne. — Alastair Reynolds

It is a tremendous sacrifice to run for political office in America today. — Roger Ailes

Language comes from what we've seen, touched, loved, lost. And it uses knowable things to give us glimpses of what's not. — Alena Graedon

When a wolf descends upon your flocks, all you gain by killing him is a short respite, for other wolves will come, — George R R Martin