Dirbar Quotes & Sayings

Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we're going to get out of it. — Mike Tyson

It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity. — David Attenborough

As the wicked flee when none pursueth, so does the middle-class wrestle when none contendeth. They cried out for freedom, it came down on them in a flood. Nothing remains but a few floating timbers of psychotherapy. — Saul Bellow

I was so far beyond simple fatigue that I was beginning to feel nicely adjusted to the idea of permanent hysteria. — Hunter S. Thompson

Blitz to V-E Day. After the war was over, the novelist John Hersey invented a new kind of journalism, modelled on the techniques of fiction, in his report about the atomic-bomb attack on Hiroshima, which filled an entire issue of the magazine in the summer of 1946. That June, Ross wrote to Flanner, with a touch of rue, "Probably the magazine will never get back to where it was." The war took The New Yorker out of the city and into the world. — Anonymous

Small wonder he refused to marry. Why buy a cow when there were udders all around begging to be milked? — George R R Martin

A necessary part of our intelligence is on the line as the oral tradition becomes less and less important. There was a time throughout our land when it was common for stories to be told and retold, a most valuable exercise, for the story retold is the story reexamined over and over again at different levels of intellectual and emotional growth. — Wes Jackson

I think what some people are doing with effects is starting to get silly. It's overused. — Richard Donner