Dillistone Group Quotes & Sayings

I had been seeing that shim in a kind of intellectual, rational, cerebral way in which the scientific properties of the metal were all that counted. John was going at it immediately and intuitively, grooving on it. I was going at it in terms of underlying form. He was going at it in terms of immediate appearance. I was seeing what the shim meant. He was seeing what the shim was. — Robert M. Pirsig

I've always been a loner, and I've spent most of my life as a single person. — Juliana Hatfield

And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment! — William Shakespeare

Glory, for the translator, is borrowed glory. There is no way around this. Translators are celebrated when they translate celebrated books. — Tim Parks

It's hard to be serious in life. — P. J. O'Rourke

He smelled like leather and water. "I think," she said quietly, now that their mouths were close to each other, "that easy and clean love is not true. It is simply convenient. Messy love, though ... that is something to revel in. — Chelsea Fine

The Dhamma has to be found by looking into your own heart and seeing that which is true and that which is not, that which is balanced and that which is not balanced. — Ajahn Chah

I don't read books, I write them. — Henry A. Kissinger

Some people erroneously believe that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its members are not Christian. We have difficulty understanding why anyone could accept and promote an idea that is so far from the truth. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

My death scene in 'The Salton Sea' is really weird. I mean, I get shot in the head. What experience can you possibly draw from? There's nothing you can compare it to, really. — Chandra West

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away? — Logan Pearsall Smith