Dilettar Quotes & Sayings

Nothing's
broken, nevertheless I'm skinless,
the gentlest touch would gut me. — Margaret Atwood

This is like coming back to earth from another world. It is like a dream too. — Edward Lucas White

Effective interdependence can only be built on true independence. — Stephen Covey

I saw him playing on television and was struck by his technique, so I asked my wife to come look at him. Now I never saw myself play, but I felt that this player is playing with a style similar to mine, and she looked at him on Television and said yes, there is a similarity between the two ... his compactness, technique, stroke production - it all seemed to gel! — Donald Bradman

I've always liked to be a meat and potatoes kind of actor who doesn't believe in any of the highfalutin stuff about acting, so I tend to be a little bit more cynical. — Anthony Hopkins

The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence. — Blake Lively

The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all. — Larry Wall

I have not written for their pleasure ... I have never flattered their opinions, nor their pride; nor will I. Neither will I make "Ladies' books" al dilettar le femine e la plebe. I have written from the fulness of my mind, from passion, from impulse, from many sweet motives, but not for their "sweet voices."
I know the precise worth of popular applause, for few scribblers have had more of it; and if I chose to swerve into their paths, I could retain it, or resume it. But I neither love ye, nor fear ye; and though I buy with ye and sell with ye, I will neither eat with ye, drink with ye, nor pray with ye. — George Gordon Byron

I have what's called an addiction to Ativan, and Xanax. Which is preferable to admitting to an aversion to planes. — Joshua Cohen

Your education experience, talent intelligence, and financial situations don't matter. The important thing is the direction in which you focus your unique, powerful, creative mind — Mark Allen

The challenge to our liberties comes frequently not from those who consciously seek to destroy our system of government, but from men of goodwill - good men who allow their proper concerns to blind them to the fact that what they propose to accomplish involves an impairment of liberty. — William O. Douglas

God sometimes answers our prayers by giving us what we would have asked for had we known what He knows. — J.D. Greear

When we express our needs indirectly through the use of evaluations, interpretations, and images, others are likely to hear criticism. When people hear anything that sounds like criticism, they tend to invest their energy in self-defense or counterattack. It's important that when we address somebody that we're clear what we want back. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

People read every thing nowadays, except books. — Sophie Swetchine

When you go to sleep, where do you really go? — Brian Lovestar

Your wealth and so called status can not earn real respect for you in the society , if you are characterless (have no purity). — Tayyab Nawaz Sulehri