Dilettanteism Quotes & Sayings

I spend most of my time in my head. You can always work out solutions and satisfactions there. Maybe you can't actually bring them about, but there's usually a pleasant pillow of time between imagining you can, and realizing you cannot. — Sheila Heti

It was like they were kissing for the first time. — Josephine Angelini

Everyone holds a secret and that's just true about everyone. So at the end of the day it's amazing what people will do when they're backed up in a corner. — Matt Barr

For loss is what we live with all the time. / None knows this better than the mind should know, the mind / that wanders, and cannot tell our name, itself / all seeds and survivals, little else, poor blind. — William Bronk

The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is an ordination. — Marcel Duchamp

Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism [sic] and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference. — George Eliot

That's the thing about lives. We're all so tangled up with one another, but at the same time, we're very much alone. — Brittainy C. Cherry

I haven't spent my entire career playing the guy in the bad hat, although I have to say that the bad guy is frequently much more interesting than the good guy. — Christopher Lee

That home run ties it up, 1-0. — Jerry Coleman

I wish I was ignorant, so I didn't know how ignorant I am — Margaret Atwood

It's always the compliments from people you love that mean so much. — Maria Bamford