Desdearmon Quotes & Sayings

I think it's a fallacy to say that a good book sells itself. It doesn't happen. I'm a voracious reader and I can give you a long list of books which should have been best sellers but they aren't. How can you buy a book if you haven't heard of it? — Amish Tripathi

The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real. — Denis Donoghue

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Let's go commit some senseless acts of science. — Seanan McGuire

Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds. — Yakov Smirnoff

The world is stuffed full of peasants. — Shirley Coleman

Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. — Fergus Henderson

I really believe that, as an actor, you should be constantly studying other people, and celebrity had the absolute opposite effect on me. It made me want to hide - to run away and hide. — David Schwimmer

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once. — Samuel Butler

Blame someone else, that's always your first instinct. And if you can't blame someone else, then start claiming the problem isn't a problem anyway. Rewrite the rules, shift the goalposts. — Julian Barnes

You know, others keep saying that there are too many candidates in the race, and once it gets down to a two-person race that Trump can't get above that 30 to 35 percent that he's gotten both in the polling and in the elections and that the others will start pulling out that 65 the 70 percent not voting for Tromp. But there's absolutely no evidence that all of that vote will go to another candidate. — Cokie Roberts

Letting go isn't about forgetting; it's about learning and moving on. It's making a choice to be strengthened by your past ... not strangled by it. — Steve Maraboli