Dorothy L Sayer Quotes & Sayings

For the first time ever, I want a girl for more than just one night, for more than just sex. She's — Melissa Collins

I always say, 'To have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!' — Jorge Paulo Lemann

They tend to be pretty abstract ones then, like doing what will have the best consequences; obviously you wouldn't specify what consequences are best, they may be different in some circumstances, so at a lower, more specific level, you may well get differences. — Peter Singer

The old phrases crack and meaning shakes out wet and new. — Nadine Gordimer

How he loathed his life-long slavery to the clock, that pervasive intimate negative opposed to every spontaneous impulse. "It's the clock that is the nay-sayer to life," he thought — Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Tax reform has been used as a crutch, as a smokescreen and as candy coating for the hard choices that have to be made. — Sir Arthur Sullivan

[John Coltrane] liked my qualities as a person and that's the reason why he let me play with him. It wasn't what I was doing musically or my instrument or anything like that. He let me play whatever I wanted to play. — Pharoah Sanders

We judge one another by our outward actions, but in the motive underlying those actions our judgment may be widely at fault. Preoccupied by our own private interpretation of the matter, we can see only the one possible motive behind the action, so that our solution may be quite plausible, quite coherent, and quite wrong. - Dorothy L. Sayers, Introduction, Pg. 4 — The Detection Club

If a Latina falls in love with someone who is insecure, it can be a nightmare. — Sofia Vergara

It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me. — Frank Sinatra

Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules. — Aristotle.

Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. — Anonymous