Desyrel Quotes & Sayings

A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone. — Saul Bellow

I have an electric Fender and a Telecaster. I have a Taylor and a Martin. I want to get more guitars for more sounds. — Ross Lynch

You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult. — Helen Mirren

So much gold reached Europe from India and America that burghers grew richer and richer as knights and landowners grew poorer and poorer. — E.H. Gombrich

But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I wish I had time to explain everything I did. Almost everything was done with an eye on the GLBT movement ... last week I got a phone call from Altoona, Pennsylvania, and the voice was young, my election gave one more young person, hope — Harvey Milk

All conversation, big or small, is about painting word pictures of your experiences for other people. The more — Nicholas Boothman

When I was growing up in South Korea in the '70s and early '80s, the country was too poor to buy original records. Everything was bootlegged. — Ha-Joon Chang

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention — Margaret Mead

If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last. — Jonathan Swift

Education is what you get when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. — Pete Seeger

My childhood was happy, joyful but very difficult. — Maria Das Gracas Silva Foster

I have a very healthy dream life. I dream a lot many, many, many nights a week. When I'm shooting, it's even more - I don't know if it has to do with stress or with creation. — Emmanuel Lubezki

A stunning meditation on the power of escape, and on the cat-and-mouse contest the self plays to deflect its own guilt. — Ethan Gilsdorf