Doukissa Collection Quotes & Sayings

If you can train your senses to perceive the movement of the minute hand of a clock, what is to stop you for training them to 'slow down' when you look at a tree or a puddle? — Colin Wilson

The game itself is bigger than the winning. — Dejan Stojanovic

I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia. — Abraham Lincoln

Everything, sooner or later, transforms into story. — Ali Smith

Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody. — Michel Legrand

He shall never know I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made out of, his and mine are the same. — Emily Bronte

The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires. — Bradley Chicho

I wouldn't ask any of my employees to do anything I wouldn't do. And I work as hard, if not harder than the rest of the staff, to set an example. I also believe in giving my employees a lot of room to be creative and to express themselves. — Emeril Lagasse

Because it's important. Laws can be reversed, Supreme Court decisions can be overturned, gender classifications can continue. — Carolyn Maloney

Step into the light. Unseen forces are cheering you on. — Cheryl Richardson

How dreadful boredom is - how dreadfully boring; I know no stronger expression, no truer one, for like is recognized only by like ... I lie prostrate, inert; the only thing I see is emptiness, the only thing I live on is emptiness, the only thing I move in is emptiness. I do not even suffer pain ... Pain itself has lost its refreshment for me. If I were offered all the glories of the world or all the torments of the world, one would move me no more than the other; I would not turn over to the other side either to attain or to avoid. I am dying death. And what could divert me? Well, if I managed to see a faithfulness that withstood every ordeal, an enthusiasm that endured everything, a faith that moved mountains; if I were to become aware of an idea that joined the finite and the infinite. — Soren Kierkegaard

American movies, English books - remember how they all end?" Gamini asked that night. "The American or the Englishman gets on a plane and leaves. That's it. The camera leaves with him. He looks out of the window at Mombasa or Vietnam or Jakarta, someplace now he can look at through the clouds. The tired hero. A couple of words to the girl beside him. He's going home. So the war, to all purposes, is over. That's enough reality for the West. It's probably the history of the last two hundred years of Western political writing. Go home. Write a book. Hit the circuit. — Michael Ondaatje

That's what happens with Millennials. They're so used to getting participation ribbons and trophies for losing, they think everything is owed to them. They're ungrateful. — Jenny Trout