Dgac Quotes & Sayings

[ ... ] under the guise of caring only for intrinsic values Osmond lived exclusively for the world. Far from being its master as he pretended to be, he was its very humble servant, and the degree of its attention was his only measure of success. He lived with his eye on it from morning till night, and the world was so stupid it never suspected the trick. Everything he did was pose - pose so subtly considered that if one were not on the lookout one mistook it for impulse. Ralph had never met a man who lived so much in the land of consideration. — Henry James

I can't do anything too serious like Saddam Hussein, but I would like to do Bill Clinton. That'd be fun. — Ruby Wax

As a kid my heart would break for the villains. — Criss Jami

It is absurd to suppose, if this is God's world, that men must always be selfish barbarians. — Charles Fletcher Dole

We're all good until we're not strong enough to be anymore. — Lindsay Cummings

How, for example, after liberating themselves from servitude to the religion of God, the creator of the world and of Adam, which alone could hold them within duty and, therefore, within society, did the impious life of those first men from whom the gentile nations arose bring them to disperse in a ferine wandering through the great forest of the earth, grown dense through saturation by the waters of the Flood? And how, constrained to seek food and water and, even more, to save themselves from the wild animals in which the great forest must unfortunately have abounded, with men frequently abandoning their women and mothers their children, and with no way of reuniting, did their descendants gradually come to forget the language of Adam and, without language or any thought other than that of satisfying their hunger, thirst and the foment of their lust, deaden all sense of humanity? — Giambattista Vico

Why do so many people start their messages with, "It's me"? Of course it is you. We all know that. But who the hell ARE you? — Jeff Lindsay

Steinbeck wrote about the tide pools and how profoundly they illustrate the interconnectedness of all things, folded together in an ever-expanding universe that's bound by the elastic string of time. He said that one should look from the tide pool to the stars, and then back again in wonder. — Robyn Schneider

They use the M as an anchor to get the doughnut and then there's an escalator to nowhere. — Gemma Burgess

I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me. — Edvard Munch

I've made mistakes but the beauty of life is that each regret builds character and makes us a better person — Vitor Belfort

Ask yourself, are you an artist, or are you an art business? You can be both, but to be successful you need to think and act like a business owner. — Dave Conrey

Borges, who said, Defeat has a dignity which noisy victory does not deserve. — Paul Theroux

To get greater than 100% return on a growth step, give up defensiveness. Defensiveness stifles performance, and destroys relationships. — Henry Cloud