Diercks Foreign Quotes & Sayings

We could never agree about Boogie and I didn't share Miriam's reverence for professors. In fact, just in case I haven't mentioned it before, the pride of my office wall is my framed high-school graduation certificate, lit from above. Miriam has reproached me for it. "Take it down, darling," she once pleaded. But it still hangs there. — Mordecai Richler

Like the morning sun, I am ready to spread the magic of love. — Debasish Mridha

That's the thing about being an artist, you don't have to take anyone else's perspective into account. You can act as self-indulgent in your emotions as you want. — Jessica Origliasso

Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them. — Sophie Swetchine

Washington is unpredictable these days. — Steve Wynn

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. — Dalai Lama

Having a human conversation is not something I've had any training in either as a comedian or as, you know, a human being. — John Oliver

A live concert needs to be listened to live. Otherwise, it's like eating day-old salad. — Maria Semple

And if Glass believed in a god, surely it resided in this great western expanse. Not a physical presence, but an idea, something beyond man's ability to comprehend, something larger. — Michael Punke

A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival Chen, a Chinese schoolmaster in Vietnam. This extraordinary book made me weep. Read it. — Janice Y.K. Lee

It's true that I suffered a lot, especially when I was younger. — Andrea Bocelli

You can force compliance with your directions, you can require obedience, but you can't mandate enthusiasm, creativity, fresh thinking, or inspiration. If you value that, then people need to feel ownership of the work, and the leader must cede some control to them. — Roger Nierenberg

We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things. — Marcel Proust

I was not expecting my sister to ask me to be her best man. I was so honored. — Brad Goreski