Dovlatov Online Quotes & Sayings

No matter what medium I'm using, or what subject I'm painting, I do retain a fairly set approach to painting. — Ron Parker

They chose "beer as soda pop." Craft brewers are "beer as wine. — Michael Jackson

She slept but a few hours. They were troubled and feverish hours, disturbed with dreams that were intangible, that eluded her, leaving only an impression upon her half-awakened senses of something unattainable. She was up and dressed in the cool of the early morning. The air was invigorating and steadied somewhat her faculties. However, she was not seeking refreshment or help from any source, either external or from within. She was blindly following whatever impulse moved her, as if she had placed herself in alien hands for direction, and freed her soul of responsibility. — Kate Chopin

Have you ever wanted something so desperately that you imagine it, day in and day out, until you have created an image of perfection that becomes the 'real thing'? Suddenly, all you have to live for is the image in your head that may not be real to anyone else in the world, but is most certainly real to you. Nothing is as perfect, not even the thing itself, as the image you have created in your mind. — Leigh Hershkovich

Remember, the goal is to take emotion out of investing because emotion is what so often destroys investing success, whether it's greed or fear. — Anthony Robbins

The most reliable ways to make oneself miserable are attempting to change people and not attempting to change circumstances. — Carolyn Hax

It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

Why don't you sparkle?"
-"Because I live in the real world, where vampires burst into flames. — L.J.Smith

Bear it in mind that when you have no brand, "no brand" is your brand and that's a negative brand! — Israelmore Ayivor

A tree there towere Tall and branching That house upholding The hall's wonder Its leaves their hangings Its limbs rafters Its mighty bole In the midst standing. — J.R.R. Tolkien