Djour Quotes & Sayings

It's only when it's smoothed out by history and we try to make sense of it - this incredibly complicated period when everyone's doing something different every day - that we look for those stylistic similarities and we say, "Well, that's what that was about," and sort of forget all the other nuance. I definitely feel that that's true for this time in my community of artists, and I'm sure that it was true at other times too. — Missy Mazzoli

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do? — Friedrich Nietzsche

If it were possible to swap lives... the whole world would already have become an electric storm of flitting souls. — Sam Meekings

To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon. — Giancarlo Esposito

While I was at college studying design I decided to paint. I was also greatly inspired by the colours that I had seen on my travels in the Brazilian Rain forest. — John Dyer

Writing poetry is about learning to pare down the poem to the most essential words. Every word used has to be crucial to the poem. — Harley King

Marriage is like the witness protection programme: you get all new clothes, you live in the suburbs, and you're not allowed to see your friends anymore. — Jeremy Hardy

The journey is about coming home ... There is always the return. And the wound will take you there. It is a blood-trail. (p. 220,222) — Jeanette Winterson

I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical truth. — William Shatner

Nothing that's ever happened has taken away the optimist in me. It's always, "Whatever-let's go to Disneyland." Yes, I have my bleak, tortured-artist moments, but you have to hold on to what's positive. — Mariah Carey

The shame is not in having sported, but in not having broken off the sport.
[Lat., Nec luisse pudet, sed non incidere ludum.] — Horace

Having grown separately for millennia, the [orginal] Americans were a boundless sea of novel ideas, drea,s, stories, philosophies, religions, ,oralities, discoveries, and all other products of the mind....Here and there we see clues of what might have been. Pacific Northwest Indian artists carved beautiful masks, boxes, bas-relief
S, and totem poles within the dictates of an elaborate aesthetic syste, based on an ovoid shapes that has no name in European languages. — Charles C. Mann

Often wrong, never in doubt. — Ivy Baker Priest

A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies. — Carl Sandburg

Everyone has the right to work, to free choice, to employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protectior against unemployment. — Eleanor Roosevelt