Diamond Dorris Quotes & Sayings

I'm not what they expect. About once a year I get discovered, get called a diamond in the rough. — Michael Dorris

But it seems to me to be an imperfection in things of beauty, and a weakness in man, if an explanation from the shallow-side has a destructive effect. The horror which we feel for Freudian interpretations is entirely due to our own barbaric or childish naivete, which believes that there can be heights without corresponding depths, and which blinds us to the really "final" truth that, when carried to extremes, opposites meet. — C. G. Jung

I believe in you, and your choices, and that most often and like mine, they will be wrong. — K.I. Hope

Faith is what? Faith is to love something you have no idea about. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Where are we going" My eyes flit to the clock. 2 a.m.
"We're taking a trip."
I wipe my splotchy cheeks. "To Hogwarts?" I ask hopefully. — Krista Ritchie

What I generally tell a class is that if you're not interested in anybody else's work but your own, take another class. — Grace Paley

But we don't need more gimmicks and gadgets; all we need do is reimagine the way we travel. If we truly want to know the secret of soulful travel, we need to believe that there is something sacred waiting to be discovered in virtually every journey. — Phil Cousineau

In my sculpture, it's not an image I am seeking, it's not an idea. My goal is to re-live a past emotion. My art is an exorcism, and beauty is something I never talk about. — Louise Bourgeois

One simply turns to the ideological vending machine, and out comes the prepared formulae. — Daniel Bell

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance; she, good cateress, Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare temperance. — John Milton

I can be of no real help to another unless I see that the two of us are in this together, that all of our differences are superficial and meaningless, and that only the countless ways we are alike has any importance at all. — Gerald G. Jampolsky