Descendo Quotes & Sayings

I pick and choose what I want to do at any given time, and what not to do, importantly. My agents, I won't hear about any offers or options. — Martin McDonagh

When a member of the House moves over to the Senate, he raises the IQ of both bodies. — Everett Dirksen

The difference between trying and doing is one leads to success, while the other leads to excuses. — Behdad Sami

I live for what I haven't done. — Donna Karan

Art altogether is nothing but a survival skill, we should never lose sight of this fact, it is, time and again, just an attempt
an attempt that seems touching even to our intellect
to cope with this world and its revolting aspects, which, as we know, is invariably possible only by resorting to lies and falsehoods, to hyprocrisy and self-deception, Reger said. These pictures are full of lies and falsehoods and full of hypocrisy and self-deception, there is nothing else in them if we disregard their often inspired artistry. All these pictures, moreover, are an expression of man's absolute helplessness in coping with himself and with what surrounds him all his life. That is what all these pictures express, this helplessness which, on the one hand, embarasses the intellect and, on the other hand, bewilders the same intellect and moves it to tears, Reger said. — Thomas Bernhard

[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust. — Dorothy Parker

And here he was, a little halfling from the Shire, a simple hobbit of the quiet countryside, expected to find a way where the great ones could not go, or dared not go. It was an evil fate. — J.R.R. Tolkien

In some sense every parent does love their children. But some parents are too broken to love them well& others are barely able to love them at all.. — Wm. Paul Young