Derico Sims Quotes & Sayings

The very beautiful and very touching thing about opera singers is they are very willing to do whatever you want. Unlike actors, who constantly want to know why they're doing something, opera singers will sort of follow you into the fires of hell. — Simon McBurney

Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it. — Ellen Terry

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.

{Letter to celebrated scientist Alexander von Humboldt, 6 December, 1813} — Thomas Jefferson

It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small village in New England, but my children are not named Heracles and Persephone, and my daughter doesn't disappear underground every six months and emerge in the spring. — Jamaica Kincaid

Curtains always hide something, either the good or the bad! Their job is to hide! If you see a curtain covering up an evil, tear it down and throw it away! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Tell me, is it better to know love and have lost it or to have never known it at all? [Camulus] — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The game-playing market today is pretty sizable. — John Romero

Money takes our minds off God. — Billy Graham

I started to work on a feature-length script about pirates in Somalia, but I knew that there was something I was missing, which was that I didn't know what day-to-day life looked like and felt like in East Africa. So I decided I had to go. — Cutter Hodierne

The secrets of success are getting started and being persistent. — Debasish Mridha

The larger your audience, the smaller your vocabulary and range of referents - the fewer your means of expression. You can't rely on the luxury of intimacy. — Joshua Cohen

As far as politically how country music goes, it's true that it's regarded from a distance as a genre of music that at different times, the more right elements of the political spectrum have claimed for their own. — Mary Chapin Carpenter

A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage. — Jane Addams

Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it. — Radha Mitchell