Dorignacs Cafe Quotes & Sayings

Civility (sabhyata,) is the sign of one with the right belief (enlightened view, samkit) and etiquette is the sign of one with a wrong belief (deluded view, bhranti). — Dada Bhagwan

Don't rush to rise to fame, lest you will be lashed in shame — Bernard Kelvin Clive

The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them. — Jonathan Safran Foer

So let's say you realize that you are never going to be a 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. person. You're not cut out for that sort of typical work environment. The benefit might be that if you embrace that and say I need to be self-employed or I need to be doing more project-oriented work. Identify the benefits - I'd be more productive. I'd be happier. The people around me would be happier because my mood would be better. When you identify the benefits of accepting the behavior or habit, you actually give leverage to it and give yourself a better chance of sticking with it. — Cheryl Richardson

If I die young, bury me in satin.
Lay me down on a bed of roses.
Sink me in the river at dawn.
Send me away with the words of a love song. — The Band Perry

Falling little wind, it was five before I could form my line, or distinguish any of the enemy's motions; and could not judge at all of their force, more than by numbers, which were seventeen, and thirteen appeared large. — John Byng

Read the kind of stuff you wish you could write. — Douglas Wilson

She crossed her toothpick legs, and I realized with sickening clarity that she was going commando. — Robyn Peterman

When a feeling was there, they felt as if it would never go; when it was gone, they felt as if it had never been; when it returned, they felt as if it had never gone. — George MacDonald

[ ... ]to be real
to become fluent, natural, to cut out the detour that sweeps us around what's fundamental to events, preventing us from touching their core: the detour that makes us all second-hand and second-rate. — Tom McCarthy

People are drooling for the truth. They want honesty from politicians, and they're not getting it. — Kinky Friedman

The more telly you do, the more it feels like a factory. — Kevin Whately