Dozoretz Foundation Quotes & Sayings

I was the first and only person in my family to go to university, and I spent two decades redesigning myself: even my voice is the product of elocution lessons. — M. J. Hyland

My brother plays guitar and base and writes. His name is Chase Ryan. — Debby Ryan

Do you like it? she asks. Universal bitch speak for I think it's hideous. — Stephanie Perkins

Every nation mocks other nations. And all are right. — Arthur Schopenhauer

It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. — F Scott Fitzgerald

If he spoke, he knew that he would break the spell. As soon as she knew her Romeo wasn't coming she would be disappointed. She would doubtless be angry with him, perhaps even sense that it was somehow his fault.
But at this moment she was happy and breathless with anticipation. Tonight was her night and she wanted to be loved. — Emily Arden

I've always thought cemeteries were like cities. There are streets, avenues - you've seen them, I think, Michael. There are blocks, too, and house numbers, slums and ghettos, middle-class sections and small palaces. — Peter S. Beagle

The self is a perpetually recreated neurobiological state. — Antonio Damasio

As a true patriot, I should be ashamed to think that Adam in paradise was more favorably situated on the whole than the backwoodsman in this country. — Henry David Thoreau

Circumstances will continue to change. They will not adjust to you; you will have to adjust to them. Circumstances are without inner-intent and you are with inner-intent. To make the circumstances favorable is our job. Unfavorable circumstances are indeed favorable. One feels exhausted going up the stairs, and yet why does he climb them? There is the inner-intent that he will be able to go up; he will be able to take advantage of what is up there; that is why! — Dada Bhagwan

Why certain political classes want purposefully to keep Americans in a state of perpetual debt and uncertainty and why certain people don't want a middle class - because middle class creates a certain happiness. You know what I mean? — John Hodgman

That's why I love improvisational theater so much - you do it [scene] once and then it's done. You don't get bogged down with a lot of preplanning and repetition. If I do something and it gets a laugh, I don't want to do it again. Why bother? I'm just repeating myself. It's boring. — Amy Sedaris

My soul has painted like the wings of butterflies,
Fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die,
I can fly, my friends ... — Freddie Mercury