Desideratum Def Quotes & Sayings

In naked beauty more adorn'd, More lovely than Pandora. — John Milton

Investment ideas, like women are often more exciting than punctual. — Warren Buffett

I honestly don't remember the book well enough to register any surprise about anything. I don't remember anything being shocking to me. — Jeff Tweedy

I try to look at the evolution of these utopian claims. In the late '60s there was an assumption that the wealth generated by industry would be taxed and then put into social programs and it would provide a baseline of stability that would allow people to have the time for self-expression; and that social contract has eroded over the last four decades and now it's every person for themselves. — Astra Taylor

Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head. — Frank Gehry

One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere. — Guillaume Apollinaire

I like the idea of being a novelist. I picture myself on the coast, the wind in my hair, horses galloping around me as I sit at my typewriter in the middle of a field ... — Sara Cox

Micheal Barrow and Darrin Smith, those guys were really intelligent. They're smart football players. They'd always be a step ahead of the offense and could predict what was coming. Dan Morgan has that. Jonathan Vilma has that. Ray Lewis has that. — Larry Coker

There are spiritual and physical laws to obey if we are to be happy. — Boyd K. Packer

He wasn't sure what was worse: leaving or the anticipation of leaving. — Maggie Stiefvater

IF GOD AND JESUS ARE UP IN THE SKY SOMEWHERE, THERE IS NO HOPE FOR HUMANKIND. We need them here and now. The Christian religion's version of the salvation of the world is that the physical Jesus will someday return to earth and straighten everything out. Where is the logic in this? Jesus was already here once and the mess and misery of the world were not resolved. In fact, Jesus never said his mission was to single-handedly save the world. Instead, he said that his mission was to bear witness to and demonstrate the truth that would. The colossal mistake of the Christian religion was building its salvation plan around the physical acts of Jesus in the world rather than what they meant in the spiritual realm - that is, in the "heavenly dimension" in us. It is an elevated state of mind. That is where we experience the reality. — Jim Palmer

People perceive me as a commodity. They just don't think anything of asking for five minutes of my time. It never occurs to them that if they're asking for it and another thousand people are asking, I don't have 1,000 five minutes to give. — Stephen Jay Gould

Everything in a modern container port is enormous, overwhelming, crushing. — Rose George

Most mothers and fathers will shop more for a TV set than they will for a child care center for their child. — Edward Zigler

I mean, before this, I would have said playing Bill Gates, because I'm playing someone obviously who is alive and is the richest man in the world. That was a heavy responsibility. — Anthony Michael Hall