Desagraded Quotes & Sayings

We need a little more compassion, and if we cannot have it, then no politician or even a magician can save the planet. — Dalai Lama

Cautious of the flood so I always lay the right pipe. — Drake

Like any mum, I fear some mysterious illness befalling my children. — Cate Blanchett

Writers will happen in the best of families. — Rita Mae Brown

Montesquieu had the style of a genius; Buffon, the genius of style. — Friedrich Melchior, Baron Von Grimm

I suppose I'll always be over-vulnerable, slightly paranoid. — Sylvia Plath

When I was at Babbo, I was covered in scars and scabs and burned bits - melted hair, ribbed burns I got reaching across the top of a hot skillet ... I sliced off the tip of my finger. I cleaved my forehead - a deep, ugly wound. Luckily, it regenerated. — Bill Buford

Is there a relative value of beauty? Is evanescence - fleetingness - a necessary element of the thing that most moves us? A shooting star dazzles more than the sun. A child captivates like an elf, but grows into grossness, an ogre, a harpy. A flower splays itself into color - the lilies of the field! - more treasured than any painting of a flower. But of all these things, women's grace, shooting stars, flowers, and paintings, only a painting endures. — Gregory Maguire

20. Fucking leaves everything as it is. Fucking may in no way interfere with the actual use of language. For it cannot give it any foundation either. It leaves everything as it is. — Maggie Nelson

Any critique of realism must begin with a sober assessment of the horrors of peace. — Christopher Hitchens

An actor must never be afraid to make a fool of himself. — Harvey Cocks

Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he was doing. Therein have lain their power and their charm. — Mary Ellen Chase

Sit quietly and open up to spirit. — Sharon Janis

At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Nobody draws the light for covered wine rooms from the south or west, but rather from the north, since that quarter is never subject to change but is always constant and unshifting. So it is with granaries: grain exposed to the sun's course soon loses its good quality, and provisions and fruit, unless stored in a place unexposed to the sun's course, do not keep long. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio