Doksan Quotes & Sayings

I'm a big fan of being able to hold those long shots and use space. I don't know, I think everything's so quick cut these days, as if films are too afraid that the audience is going to get bored instead of relaxing and trusting their work. — Alice Englert

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones. — Sydney Smith

And those who come together in the night and are entwined in rocking delight do an earnest work and gather sweetnesses, gather depth and strength for the song of some coming poet, who will arise to speak of ecstasies beyond telling. — Rainer Maria Rilke

How much choice the animals technically had was far less important than how much choice they felt they had — Sheena Iyengar

A lie for a good reason is better than a truth that destroys. — Pawan Mishra

There are some things a man can't fake, and lethality is one of them - a lapdog might learn to howl, even bare its teeth on occasion, but that don't make it a wolf. — Daniel Polansky

People take songs so literally. — Richard Marx

Or maybe memories are like karaoke - where you realize up on the stage, with all those lyrics scrawling across the screen's bottom, and with everybody clapping at you, that you didn't even know the lyrics to your all-time favourite song. Only afterwards, when someone else is up on stage humiliating themselves amid the clapping and laughing, do you realize that what you liked most about your favourite song was precisely your ignorance of its full meaning - and you read more into it than maybe existed in the first place. I think it's better not to know the lyrics to your life. — Douglas Coupland

If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else. — Mignon McLaughlin

genuinely righteous people invariably become more aware of their personal guilt and need for forgiveness than those who have become so foul and hard they cannot detect their own shame. — D. A. Carson

She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric. — Michael Cunningham

Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized. — Adi Shankaracarya

The first thing I do is I check my emails and my texts. I guess I shouldn't feel guilty about it at this point; it's kind of the norm. Sometimes I'll bounce around Twitter. And if I have time, I'll catch up on the news, usually on 'Huffington Post' or 'Salon.' — Randall Park

You can believe in God, or you can believe in America as the greatest country on Earth, but you can't believe in astrology. Astrology is like mathematics or physics or language. It's a tool, an organized system of thought that can be used to investigate or discover something. Believing is an act of faith. I believe in God, but I don't believe in astrology. I can only make observations that either uphold or refute astrological theory. — David John Jaegers

I never object to a certain degree of disputatiousness in a young man from the age of seventeen to that of four or five and twenty, provided I find him always arguing on one side of the question. — Samuel