Dismukes Feed Quotes & Sayings

It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future. — John Quincy Adams

There's no perk in being closed-minded as a minority. It's never, ever, ever going to help you, ever. — Baratunde R. Thurston

It can be a bit annoying if another actor is trying to talk to the director and the wife is sitting on his lap. — Colin Farrell

You don't need to feel how you think you should feel, or how somebody else thinks you should feel. There's no right or wrong way to feel. — Sheryl Lee

When we walk in pride, we forfeit grace. But when we humble ourselves, grace awaits. — Pilgrim Benham

Have you ever noticed how bored people are also boring? — Amy Dickinson

Man cannot reach the shrine if he does not make the pilgrimage.
Languages are jealous. They do not give up their best treasures to those who try to deal with them through an intermediary belonging to an alien rival. — Rabindranath Tagore

Take a ride on heavy metal, it's the only way that you can travel down that road. — Don Felder

If my setting is new to a reader, or the concerns of the novel are new, I hope they will learn something about the world. I would like to say that they can trust that what they do learn in the novel will be accurate, because I pay a lot of attention to facts. I do a lot of research to make sure that I'm not giving them, you know, blue moons of Jupiter. It's not science fiction. — Barbara Kingsolver

A proverb has three characteristics: few words, good sense, and a fine image. — Moses Ibn Ezra

Well who can truly understand politics any more, ever since they all went professional it's all sort of blurred with the entertainments industry. — Steve Merrick

While notable advances in certain parts of the world in woman's rights have occured in the last hundred years, the centuries of conditioning and the mentality that views women as inferior still prevade our world today. — Frederick Lenz

Favorite color: I hate colors. — Ian Shoales

And indeed, as night drew on the sky like a bodice, lacing it with the last beams of sunlight, — Catherynne M Valente

I felt lighter when I had finished, and for once emptiness was a sweet relief and a condition to be treasured. — Rachel Hartman