Drisha Scholars Quotes & Sayings

The diet is a twisted, noxious thing, all tortured abstinence and short-term fraud. I speak from bitter experience. As a restaurant critic, I eat to live and live to eat. And having a toxic aversion to exercise, there is little to prevent the inevitable bulging of my gut. Hence the need for the occasional diet. — Tom Parker Bowles

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying. — Josh Billings

Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine. But do I? Am I an addict? No. Have I tried it? Probably in one of my drunken stupors, probably approximately about a year ago. — Rob Ford

I am surprised." She scanned the script rapidly. "Th-this is a p-pack of lies!" He looked worried. "Have you always had that little speech impediment?" he asked cautiously. "N-no, it's my souvenir from the Escobaran psych service, and the l-late war. Who came up with this g-garbage, anyway?" The line that particularly caught her eye referred to "the cowardly Admiral Vorkosigan and his pack of ruffians." "Vorkosigan's the bravest man I ever met." Gould took her firmly by the upper arm, and guided her to the shuttle hatch. "We have to go, now, to make the holovid timing. Maybe you can just leave that line out, all right? Now, smile. — Lois McMaster Bujold

And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past. — Walter Salles

I got caught stealing when I was a kid from the local bodega right across the street from where we lived. I tried to steal a big bag of Red Hot Dollars. And I swear, I was about 7 years old and the bag was bigger'n me. — Marlon Wayans

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved, which a cow enjoys on giving milk. — H.L. Mencken

Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed. — William Jennings Bryan

There is no explaining why you love the people who belonged to you. No explaining why you couldn't be objective about them, or indifferent to their disapproval. They are woven into your soul with millions of threads, and cutting them out would make you bleed... — Marjorie Dorner

You can be walking down the street for a chat, but until you've got the selfie out of the way, people aren't ready to talk. — David Cameron

I forgive all personal weaknesses except egomania and pretension. — Herb Kelleher

Donald Trump is a great friend, and he has four or five Picassos on his plane. And that's where I would look at them. — Shaquille O'Neal

To adapt a play into a movie, you have to change it. — Randa Haines

We are actually living in a million parallel realities every single minute. — Marina Abramovic

When generalizations turn into painful cultural stereotypes and biases, those biased narratives disrupt our ability to see each event as individual, which interrupts our ability to intelligently and compassionately respond to what's happening now. In many cases, our generalizations cause real harm, like somebody shooting a person who looks "suspicious" because he fits a racial profile. Generalization is what leads to oppression. Deconstructing our generalizations is the only way to overcome bias. This is where studying emptiness is intended to lead us - toward the cessation of prejudice. — Ethan Nichtern