Dominium Quotes & Sayings

It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill. — John Gunther

I'm constantly annoyed that people are distracted by false conspiracies such as 9/11, when all around we provide evidence of real conspiracies, for war or mass financial fraud. — Julian Assange

The night has a thousand eyes and I'm a gypsy dancer still hungry for more. — Bob Miller

I like to believe that intimate moments between characters don't need to be relegated to independent films. — Colin Trevorrow

A good name is still to be preferred over great riches. Especially it is to be preferred to the appearance of riches, aquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for 2 months. — Ezra Taft Benson

the Temple was rebuilt, but by then the religion of Israel had been marked forever by the piety of the exile. Alongside the single Temple, where blood sacrifice was celebrated, arose numerous synagogues, places for meeting and for prayer, and the dominium of the priests yielded to the growing influence of the Pharisees and Scribes, men of the book and of study. In 70 A.D., the Roman legions again destroyed the Temple. But the learned rabbi Joahannah ben-Zakkaj, slipped covertly out of Jerusalem through the siege and obtained permission from Vespasian to continue the teaching of the Torah in the city of Jamnia. The temple has never been rebuilt since, and study, the Talmud, has become the real temple of Israel.24 This complex relationship to the Talmud is in fact a key to understanding the life and work of Mark Rothko. — Annie Cohen-Solal

Words, Isobel, have always held the dangerous power to conjure things into being. Remember that. — Kelly Creagh

There's only so much a woman can endure in a single day without a bracing bout of giggles. — Kelly Eileen Hake

The whole thing of working in all these different mediums, it's just so that I can always be playing hooky from one of them. I can always be rebelling against my boss. Like, I'm supposed to be writing this book, but - heh heh heh - I'm writing a movie, secretly. I'm procrastinating, and in my off-hours I'm working on this movie that I'm not allowed to do, because I'm supposed to be writing a book! — Miranda July

Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated. — Alphonse De Lamartine

All that profligate investment of energy to effect a splendid, momentary reversal of natural law. That such a reversal should demand so much and last such a short time was terrible; that people would go for it anyway was both terrible and wonderful.
... A game, or maybe even not that
maybe it was only practice for a game, the way that all the sweat and trembling exhaustion in the Wilshire loft that day had just been practice. Practice for a show that only a few people would probably care to attend and which would probably close quickly. — Stephen King

There is no value to anything in this world, at the same time there is no need to 'devalue' anything. — Dada Bhagwan

I'm still trying to figure out what the right line is between myself and the people I play. Sometimes I go too far one way or too far the other. — Maggie Gyllenhaal