Dpstream Quotes & Sayings

There are two things John and I always do when we're going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song. — Paul McCartney

The Attolian waited, far and away the best non-speaker I think I have ever known. — Megan Whalen Turner

In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But SF can in principle deal with anything. — John Sladek

Making children cry for a photographer can be considered mean. But I would say that making children laugh and show off their jeans for an apparel ad is just as exploitative and less natural. Toddlers' natural state, like, 30 percent of the time, is crying, and it doesn't indicate pain or suffering. — Jill Greenberg

When you go from the fake New Orleans of Disneyland to the real one, where the captain of the paddle-wheel steamer says it is possible to see alligators on the banks of the river, and then you don't see any, you risk feeling homesick for Disneyland.
-'City of Robots',1986 — Umberto Eco

Possess the spirit of independence. The Americans do, and why should not you? Possess the spirit of men, bold and enterprising, fearless and undaunted. Sue for your rights and privileges. Know the reason that you cannot attain them. Weary them with your importunities. You can but die, if you make the attempt; we shall certainly die if you do not. The Americans have practised nothing but head-work these 200 years, and we have done their drudgery. And is it not high time for us to imitate their examples, and practise head-work too, and keep what we have got, and get what we can? — Maria W. Stewart

Our politics has been greatly impacted, for the worse, by big money and the concentration of big money. — Martin O'Malley

That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined. — William E. Gladstone

Love is a great spirit. Everything spiritual is in between god and mortal. — Plato

I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not. — Jim Elliot

Didn't it bother him that he was teaching his students poetry when he was certain it wouldn't make a difference in how their lives turned out? Didn't it bother him to be so sure that it was futile to even try? And what about us? What standards did we have? Weren't our fates sealed as well? What was I ever going to become? What stopped other people from looking at us and pitying us, how we didn't see the pointlessness in working so many jobs, moving from one shit place to another and scrimping on pennies, how we couldn't face the reality of our situation: that non of this was leading up to anywhere that was any different from where we had just been. — Jenny Zhang

I didn't want to be known as Madonna's playboy, her boy toy. — Dennis Rodman

I think the idea of embodying the physical presence of a character is the same on stage and screen. There are just different levels of expression to keep in mind for each platform. — Amanda Schull