Ducret School Quotes & Sayings

You kind of create your own moral universe. It's like, well, I like myself. If other people don't like me, then whatever. I'm out of here. — Jessica Cutler

The only way to become authentically powerful is to create authentic power. You cannot wish, want, or command authentic power into your life, although you can try. — Gary Zukav

The lives of heroes have enriched history, and history has adorned the actions of heroes ; and thus I cannot say whether the historians are more indebted to those who provided them with such noble materials, or those great men to their historians. — Jean De La Bruyere

Donald Judd spoke of a "neutral" surface, but what is meant? Neutrality must involve some relationship (to other ways of painting, thinking?) He would have to include these in his work to establish the neutrality of that surface. He also used "non" or "not" - expressive - this is an early problem - a negative solution or - expression of new sense - which can help one into - what one has not known. "Neutral" expresses an intention. — Jasper Johns

I nod, thinking the whole concept of the path not taken is partly what has always troubled me. — Emily Giffin

There is a certain time of life, when we value a good stomach more than the mind ... — Ninon De L'Enclos

I have been called the human jukebox, yes. But karaoke is not meant for people who can sing! — Carrie Underwood

Faith can remove a mountain, but doubt can put it back in place again — Tage Danielsson

I feel good about the work I do on Survivor and am proud of my contribution. — Jeff Probst

They were utterly fearless. I did not understand it until I looked out on the street. That was where I saw white parents pushing double-wide strollers down gentrifying Harlem boulevards in T-shirts and jogging shorts. Or I saw them lost in conversation with each other, mother and father, while their sons commanded entire sidewalks with their tricycles. The galaxy belonged to them, and as terror was communicated to our children, I saw mastery communicated to theirs. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

It would take a hell of a man to replace no man at all. — Anna Quindlen

Kids today aren't listening to music audio-only. They're picking up a CD and looking at the lyric sheet and wondering why the pictures aren't moving around. Who wants to do that? It's like Bam Bam Flintstone hanging with the dinosaurs vs. Elroy Jetson who's flying around space. If I'm a kid, I wanna be kicking it with Elroy. — Will.i.am

God is a man of his word, He always gives assurance that every task or assignment will become a success. — Euginia Herlihy

I believe that bringing a life into this world is the single most important thing a person can undertake, and it can also be the most challenging. I think as mothers we are all just trying our best. — Gisele Bundchen