Distinguido 2015 Quotes & Sayings

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end. — Drew Barrymore

There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened. — Michel De Montaigne

And once, a sophomore English teacher, Mr. Watts, found out that one of his students had spent the past eight class periods carving an elaborate design into his desk. The "artwork" read: "Mr. Watts and Dickens sucks dick." Mr. Watts confronted the carver, telling him, "That's wrong!" Then Mr. Watts took the knife and crossed out the last s in sucks. "This sentence has two objects," he explained. "You need to conjugate the verb differently." And he handed the knife back. — Flynn Meaney

What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they? — Orson F. Whitney

A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits. — Alexander Pope

He really loved her, despite his conflicting thoughts. He even loved her before she became lovable. — Leanne Davis

You don't have to be some sort of freak to meditate — John Lennon

There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because there have been some great live things that ended up on the Internet. Rather than try to stop it, we like it. If nobody gave a crap about you, they wouldn't bother to bootleg you. — Burton Cummings

I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America. — Tawni O'Dell

I wear what I feel and what makes me feel happy. — Estelle

Not many women got to live out the daydream of women - to have a room, even a section of a room, that only gets messed up when she messes it up herself. — Maxine Hong Kingston