Djalti Diroulou Quotes & Sayings

Time and judgment collaborate to produce farce, and farce in turn contains much truth; major characters upon the stage may turn out to be lackeys in disguise, while the figures we have overlooked in the midst of the frenetic action unmask and reveal themselves as divinities. (160) — Joan Wickersham

Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others. — Pasquier Quesnel

Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how to give, but we forget about accepting things, which can be much harder than giving ... Accepting another person's gift is allowing him to express his feelings for you. — Alexander McCall Smith

Meditation raises the question: Who are we really? — Ram Dass

Up to and including the moment of exposure, the photographer is working in an undeniably subjective way. By his choice of technical approach, by the selection of the subject matterand by his decision as to the exact cinematic instant of exposure, he is blending the variables of interpretation into an emotional whole. — W. Eugene Smith

The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence - as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse) but its very existence ... The Photograph then becomes a bizarre (i)medium(i), a new form of hallucination: false on the level of perception, true on the level of time: a temporal hallucination, so to speak, a modest (o)shared(i) hallucination (on the one hand 'it is not there,' on the other 'but it has indeed been'): a mad image, chafed by reality. — Roland Barthes

If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long. — John Sununu

The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory — Napoleon Bonaparte

The catcher in the rye ... that's all I really want to be ... — J.D. Salinger

Galanna's gift, it was dryly said, was to be impossible to please. — Robin McKinley

Sound is your friend because sound is much cheaper than picture, but it has equal effect on the audience - in some ways, perhaps more effect because it does it in a very indirect way. — Francis Ford Coppola

Eddie Haas talked a lot about not hitting the ball in the air. — Dale Murphy

Those social networks, there's something sad about them. Is it because they don't have enough knowledge about friends and people? I don't understand it. It's like a talkative mirror where people talk to themselves. And what I hate most in life is selfies. — Karl Lagerfeld