Donkin Reserve Quotes & Sayings

For the essence of the symbol cannot be altered without altering its sense. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths; and that the best lessons of delicacy and self-respect are to be found in novels where the feelings are so naturally portrayed that you fancy you are witnessing real life as you read. — Madame De Stael

It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach. — Don Meyer

I think it was a big revelation to me earlier in my life that people who appear to be evil are actually not. In other words, nobody wakes up in the morning and says, "Yuck, yuck, yuck, I'm gonna be evil." — George Saunders

Don't you dare besmirch the name of Congress. They are patriotic Americans trying to dress and feed themselves. — Jon Stewart

Whoever invented karaoke is evil. They should be shot between the eyes with a dull bullet. — Emma Chase

Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time. — Eileen Myles

We believe trial judges confronted with disruptive, contumacious, stubbornly defiant defendants must be given sufficient discretion to meet the circumstances in each case. — Hugo Black

He never was worth the powder it'd take to blow him to hell. — Shirley Damsgaard

I know, we can barely fit them in. That is a big challenge. Treating four lead characters equally, within a 30-minute format, is definitely challenging. — Mark Duplass

In a lot of ways home improvement is like marriage. It's not glamorous. It can take a lot of hard work and effort. There are days it feels like it might be easier to burn the whole thing to the ground and start all over again. Then you remember how much you love the house or your husband and you recommit yourself to what it takes to see the whole thing through. Even when it might involve paintbrushes and compromise and sanding and scraping all the rough edges. And when you look back on a tough patch a few months after the worst has passed, you don't remember all the hard work and the tears. You just have the satisfaction of knowing you've made something beautiful. — Melanie Shankle

I'm a phallus in pigtails, and there's blood on my nose, and my tissue is rotting where the rats chew my bones. And my eye sockets empty, see nothing but pain, I keep having this brainstorm about twelve times a day. — David Bowie

I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do. — Brian Eno