Difanally Quotes & Sayings

Henry James's definition of the purpose of a novel: To help the human heart to know itself. — P.D. James

Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart. — Corrie Ten Boom

I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years. — Terri Windling

As he chooses, he is. — Robert McKee

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine. — Friedrich Schiller

Men who expect universal peace through invention of destructive weapons of war are no wiser than one who, noting the improvement of agricultural implements, should prophesy an end to the tilling of the soil. — Ambrose Bierce

When you learn that you inspired someone, it's a huge honor. — Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

The fact that Slammin' Sammy couldn't win the Open made it all the more valuable for the players that did win. Gave it a special quality. I'd say a part of the sheen on that trophy comes from my sweat. — Sam Snead

It could be Grammy night, Oscar night, whatever - I don't feel the pressure to be there. — Idris Elba

Probably your first agent is going to be some guy who also handles dog acts. — Robert Ben Garant

They are the largest collection of freshwater lakes in the world. They border eight U.S. states and the Canadian Providence of Ontario and at time have supplied water to one-third of Canadians and one-seventh of Americans. They're vaster than the entire New England region and define beachfront to many people who have never seen an ocean. — Susan Magsamen

You look like you got more of a bath than the car. I never
thought washing a car would be so hard, but after watching you for the last fifteen minutes, I'm convinced it should be an Olympic sport. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

The aesthetic construct, and nothing else, has taught us to expose ourselves to a non-enslaving experience of rank differences. The work of art is even allowed to 'tell' us, those who have run away from form, something, because it quite obviously does not embody the intention to confine us. 'La poesie ne s'impose plus, elle s'expose' Something that exposes itself and proves itself in this test gains unpresumed authority. In the space of aesthetic simulation, which is at once the emergency space for the success and failure of the artistic construct, the powerless superiority of the works can affect observers who otherwise take pains to ensure that they have no lord, old or new, above them. — Peter Sloterdijk

At that time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer, and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before ... — Graham Chapman

Gerard turned away and ignored the cruelty of the meerkats, tore it from his mind. Lucretia needed a heart. — Jeff VanderMeer