Deshields Quotes & Sayings

During all of dinner the singing went on upstairs, and no one said a word. — Shirley Jackson

A volunteer is a person who can see what others cannot see; who can feel what most do not feel. Often, such gifted persons do not think of themselves as volunteers, but as citizens - citizens in the fullest sense: partners in civilization. — George H. W. Bush

After that, all the while Millie was eating the pudding ... we both tore Christopher's character to shreds. It was wonderful fun ... He drove everyone mad in Chrestomanci Castle by insisting on silk shirts and exactly the right kind of pajamas. 'And he could get them right anyway by magic,' Millie told me, 'if he wasn't too lazy to learn how ... But the thing that really annoys me is the way he never bothers to learn a person's name. If a person isn't important to him, he always forgets their name.'
When Millie said this, I realized that Christopher had never once forgotten my name ... — Diana Wynne Jones

Take away, O Lord, the veil of my heart while I read the Scriptures. — Lancelot Andrewes

To find the people who've became truly sane, seek among those who've managed to do without sanity. — Denis Johnson

I hit your thigh!"
"Oh, please. A man doesn't need that long to recover from a knee to the thigh. — Kiera Cass

The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The artist is a heightened manifestation of the craftsman ... Let us form ... a new guild of craftsmen without the class divisions that set out to raise an arrogant barrier between craftsmen and artists! ... Let us together create the new building of the future which will be all in one: architecture and sculpture and painting. — Walter Gropius

In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself. — Maria Montessori

While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love. — Bo Bennett

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and
understanding. — Marshall McLuhan

Character halts without aid of the imagination, which our classes in Shakespeare and Browning, music and drawing, recognize not only as amusement and by-play of the mind, but a co-ordinate power. Its work is unhappily styled fiction; for to idealize is to realize. — C. A. Bartol

My intentions were not to fascinate the world with my personality. — Mike Tyson

Overcoming hardships and working around and through their obstacles to achieve an education is what I call a true success. — Wayne Huizenga

There's not a whole lot of advantage for a company to be public. — Dave Goldberg