Derryberry Hall Quotes & Sayings

Thought flies and words go on foot. — Julien Green

What is a good definition? For the philosopher or the scientist, it is a definition which applies to all the objects to be defined, and applies only to them; it is that which satisfies the rules of logic. But in education it is not that; it is one that can be understood by the pupils. — Henri Poincare

I've come to the conclusion that I'm not supposed to be married. — Gregg Allman

As he was wont to remark, Nature has had her day; she has finally exhausted through the nauseating uniformity of her landscapes and her skies, the sedulous patience of men of refined taste. Essentially, what triteness Nature displays, like a specialist who confines himself to his own single sphere; what small-mindedness, like a shopkeeper who stocks only this one article to the exclusion of any other; what monotony she exhibits with her arrangements of mountains and seas! Page 20.
There is no doubt whatever that this eternally self-replicating old fool has now exhausted the good-natured admiration of all true artists, and the moment has come to replace her, as far as that can be achieved, with artifice. — Joris-Karl Huysmans

All the earth is to bring praise to God — Sunday Adelaja

Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle. — Joan D. Vinge

There is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence. — Meister Eckhart

I find I go in airports anywhere in the country, and someone's always coming up to me and saying 'Hey, you're at my country club in Dubuque, right?' You know, because they kind of know my face, but they don't know why. — Dylan Baker

The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn't believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls. — James D. Watson

You shouldn't be in here! — Evelyn Winters

Time is the scarcest resource ... — Peter Drucker

There is nowhere else I'd rather be, nothing else I would prefer to be doing. I am at the beach looking west with the continent behind me as the sun tracks down to the sea. I have my bearings. — Tim Winton