Dessins Quotes & Sayings

Each person is a vast territory of undiscovered mystery as nebulous and uncharted as the deepest oceans and expanses of space. — Bryant McGill

In "Virginia Woolf" I had a thing which the grips called the paraplegic which was a wheelchair thing that I had made up years before where I could stand on this bicycle-like device and be pushed down the hall, and then step off it with a handheld camera. — Haskell Wexler

You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know. — Rene Daumal

The fidelity of the United States to security treaties is not just an empty matter. It is a pillar of peace in the world. — Dean Rusk

But suppose Peter said to her, "Yes, yes, but your parties - what's the sense of your parties?" all she could say was (and nobody could be expected to understand): They're an offering; which sounded horribly vague. But — Virginia Woolf

Just make sure the unknown is a place you the writer understand. If you're going to write, you have to love. ... You have to fall on your face, swim against the tide, make terrible mistakes, and pay the price; you have to tune in, turn on, drop out, drop back in, fight, cry, lose, win. ... Above all, don't get too comfortable. Go out there and get your heart broken. You won't be able to write until you do. — Holly Peterson

Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea. — Edward De Bono

We cannot stand through the storms of life based on someone else's faith. We must be fully assured in our own hearts and minds. — Joyce Meyer

She smiled. "How ... cute." She chose the word rather like a candy, which she bit. — Matthew Skelton

Oh ye of little faith. Not for IYD ... But you didn't even try. — Karen Marie Moning

I wonder about all the roads not taken and am moved to quote Frost ... but won't. It is sad to be able only to mouth
other poets. I want someone to mouth me. — Sylvia Plath

In 1987, I had no idea who Steven Isserlis was. We met at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina. It was originally just an Italian summer festival, but for the past 14 years, there's also been a spring festival in America. — Joshua Bell

If you want something wholeheartedly the whole conspires to get it for you — Kunal Bhardwaj

We become pitiable and ridiculous when we imbibe an unreasoned mysticism in our life without any natural or substantial basis. People like us, who are proud to be revolutionary in every sense, should always be prepared to bear all the difficulties, anxieties, pain and suffering which we invite upon ourselves by the struggles initiated by us and for which we call ourselves revolutionary. — Bhagat Singh