Duchesses Peony Quotes & Sayings

We have to remember not to tell them, each of them, that they are our new leader. It would only frighten them off, W. says. No one should ever know he or she is our leader, we agree. Only we should know. And we should follow them in secret. — Lars Iyer

It's self-soothing for me to draw. So if I'm upset, drawing makes me less upset. — Bruce Eric Kaplan

Dismantle your wounds so you stop living your life by them. — Nikki Rowe

It's a waste of time to be bummed on something, considering the amount of time that we have in this world. — Coco Ho

The use of military force against Iran would be very dangerous. It would be very provocative. The only thing worse would be Iran being a nuclear power. — Rudy Giuliani

Harder he works, the luckier he gets. — Ian Chappell

The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality. — Chogyam Trungpa

Fog spilled from the heights of San Francisco like the liquid it almost was. On better days it spread across the bay and took over Oakland street by street, a thing you saw coming, a change you watched happening to you, a season on the move. Where it encountered redwoods, the most local of rains fell. Where it found open space, its weightless pale passage seemed both endless and like the end of all things. It was a temporary sadness, the more beautiful for being sad, the more precious for being temporary. It was the slow song in minor that the rock-and-roll sun then chased away. — Jonathan Franzen

I just finished Meet Joe Black with Hopkins. — Claire Forlani

Nigeria [in 1990] was all rumour, an unbelievable amount of rumour - largely about crime and almost mythical manifestations of evil. — Rem Koolhaas

It's a rather joyous song," Cohen said when Various Positions was released. "I like very much the last verse - 'And even though it all went wrong, / I'll stand before the Lord of Song / with nothing on my lips but Hallelujah! — Alan Light