Dirkies Quotes & Sayings

What is wrong with us human beings, and has been wrong since time immemorial, is that without ever stating it in so many words, we believe that we have entered the realm of immortality. We behave as if we are never going to die - an infantile arrogance. But even more injurious than this sense of immortality is what comes with it : the sense that we can engulf this inconcievable universe with our minds. — Carlos Castaneda

Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life. — Mahatma Gandhi

I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs. — Gregory Harrison

Wine brightens the life and thinking of anyone — Thomas Jefferson

He comes out in shorts and the same V-neck shirt. One of his legs from just below the knee is a prosthesis. It's made of a dark metal and has swirling, jagged patterns on it. I feel like I should have known this, but I've only seen him in pants because it's winter. "Sorry, — Alison Evans

The living Web unfolds in time, and as we see each daily revelation we experience its growth as a story. — Mark Bernstein

I just grate on my own nerves. I don't like to watch me. — Megan Fox

In the beginning [in older days], if I were to say something that hurt the other person, I would turn it around by telling him, 'Dear brother, my mind has been this way from the start!!!' So the other person then becomes happy. — Dada Bhagwan

Is there anything worse than being called the 'It Girl?' By definition, there will be a new one in two weeks. — Brit Marling

He wanted to know things, not reveal them. — Terry Goodkind

It was not so much fun. His work became confused with Nicole's problems; in addition, her income had increased so fast of late that it seemed to belittle his work. Also, for the purpose of her cure, he had for many years pretended to a rigid domesticity from which he was drifting away, and the pretence became more arduous in this effortless immobility, in which he was inevitably subjected to microscopic examination. When Dick could no longer play what he wanted to play on the piano, it was an indication that life was bring refined down to a point. He stayed in the big room a long time, listening to the buzz of the electric clock, listening to time. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Or she could remember that sometimes pride was less important than doing what had to be done. She — Nora Roberts

The lightbulb is gone," she said awed. "Emma, you said, 'Lights, begone' and you literally made the lights be gone."
"How do I get them back?" I asked, panicked. "What's the opposite of begone? Regone? — Cara Lynn Shultz

The real inferiority of women to men is shown by their hate of paederasty, which they regard as unfair competition. Men on the other hand rather approve of Sapphism, as saving them trouble & expense.
- Aleister Crowley. 1929-03-09 diary entry. — Lawrence Sutin