Dosso Dossi Quotes & Sayings

The higher you rise, the greater your need for advice. — Patrick W. Carr

People are dreams and awkwardness and gawk. — Neil Gaiman

I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not. — Fannie Hurst

Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty. — David Mitchell

The most terrifying burden of the creature is to be isolated, which is what happens in individuation: one separates himself out of the herd. This move exposes the person to the sense of being completely crushed and annihilated because he sticks out so much, has to carry so much in himself. These are the risks when the person begins to fashion consciously and critically his own framework of heroic self-reference. Here is precisely the definition of the artist type, or the creative type generally. We have crossed a threshold into a new type of response to man's situation. No one has written about this type of human response more penetratingly than Rank; and of all his books, Art and Artist is the most secure monument to his genius. I — Ernest Becker

I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do not know you, preserved a silence which their individuality as living things made all the more striking, and warmed themselves in the heat of a glowing coal fire ... — Marcel Proust

Writing, regardless of the end result - whether good or bad, published or not, well reviewed or slammed - means celebrating beauty in an often ugly world. — Mary Karr

No government can be trusted, that does not trust its own people with military-style arms of greater weight and power than those possessed by the central government itself. — Vin Suprynowicz

Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table. — Natalie Goldberg

George Best was the greatest player in the world. — Pele

We were fortunate enough to have several good books detailing the camps and the women. Some were by the survivors. I also got to talk to some of the women who had been in the camp, survivors. — Glenn Close

Economists don't seem to have noticed that the economy sits entirely within the ecology. — Carl Safina

Movie Cliche #12: The Moral. A character states the obvious and everybody gets the point. — Connie Willis