Diaghilev Hotel Quotes & Sayings

To all the women she saved and trained for battle, Otrera was definitely a hero. She gave them hope. She gave them control over their own lives. — Rick Riordan

'The Quiet Ones' was my first film, let alone my first horror film, and I had so much fun. I had such a laugh, every single day. I look like such a feral child in it. — Olivia Cooke

Culture of life is really important for a country to have if it's going to be a hospitable society. — George W. Bush

The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent. — Stanley Baldwin

Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer. — Paul Klee

Not that I like having my direst preconceptions about humanity confirmed or anything. But I was right. — Rob Thomas

Oh, dear God, you don't actually have a brain, do you, it's more a filigreed spiderweb, with little chambers in it where trained monkeys play the pipe organ. — Glen David Gold

I discover vision, not as a "thinking about seeing," to use Descartes expression, but as a gaze at grips with a visible world, and that is why for me there can be another's gaze. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

A sacred pride should grip us of not being satisfied with the mediocre but to strive (for we can do it, if we want to) with the exertion of all our strength to attain the highest. Let us scorn what is of this earth, let us ignore what is of heaven, let us leave absolutely everything worldly behind us in order to hasten to the abode out of this world, in the proximity of the sublime deity. We do not need to think of stepping back. Of being satisfied with second rank, let us strive for dignity and glory. To attain the highest. — Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

She was at the beauty shop for two hours. That was only for the estimate. — Henny Youngman

The average sendentary man of our time who is at all suggestible must emerge from this chapter believing that his chances of surviving a combination of instinct, complexes, reflexes, glands, sex, and present-day traffic conditions are about equal to those of a one-legged man trying to get out of a labyrinth. — James Thurber

It was a kiss to level mountains and shake stars from the sky. It was a kiss to make angels faint and demons weep ... a passionate, demanding, soul-searing kiss that nearly knocked the earth off its axis. — Lisa Kleypas