Dittmann Gyongyi Quotes & Sayings

I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really. — Paul Kane

How dare I presume to say: He is my friend, or even, more cautiously, I think I know him? At the very most we are like two strangers meeting in the white wintry veld and sitting down together for a while to smoke a pipe before proceeding on their separate ways. No more.
Alone. Alone to the very end. I ... every one of us. But to have been granted the grace of meeting and touching so fleetingly: is that not the most awesome and wonderful thing one can hope for in this world? — Andre Brink

I did the David Cronenberg film, A History of Violence, with Viggo Mortensen and I played a real sociopath. For the next seven years, I played the psycho-of-the-week. — Greg Bryk

Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can't have it both ways. — Carlos Santana

They may not like what you have to say, but it is better to express how you feel. — Auliq Ice

Nothing is weaker than water, Yet for overcoming what is hard and strong, Nothing surpasses it. — Laozi

I think President Bush tried to step up on Social Security even though the polls showed that was unpopular. He has not been successful and backed off, but I admire people who take on big problems. — Donna Shalala

All types of magic performance have a purpose. Even if it's an amateur who's trying out slight of hand on YouTube. — Justin Flom

There's comedians who I consider extremely punk rock who I've seen do very political stand up in places where nobody wants to hear that. It's uncomfortable and scary and you realize it's the punkest performance you've ever witnessed. — Kathleen Hanna

You can be spiritual all by yourself. Everybody has a soul. But to be religious, it seems like you need other people, and then sometimes it becomes more about the people than the soul. — Dan Groat

One of the first places where I started to respond to song lyrics was in reggae music. A lot of what I was responding to were references to the Old Testament. It was not that I had to adapt the lyrics to the sound. Reggae and the Old Testament are bound up together. There wasn't anything that I had to do. — Matisyahu

I always wear a pair of colored jeans and fun boots. I have a really cute pair of stars-and-stripes Converse, and I love wearing all my bright Nike shoes. — Gracie Gold