Duino Coffee Quotes & Sayings

Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, but because it wishes to be art. — Donald Barthelme

OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors. — Ambrose Bierce

Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end. — Immanuel Kant

It's like communes - people with nothing are always willing to share. — Orson Scott Card

Profanation and violation are part of the perversity of sex, which never will conform to liberal theories of benevolence. Every model of morally or politically correct sexual behavior will be subverted by nature's daemonic law. — Camille Paglia

Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory. — Bernie Taupin

I've had to work very hard, and I don't really have a category or fit into any niche, so each time I come out with a new record, it's like, I'm a new guy. — Lenny Kravitz

Draco: Flipendo! ... Keep up, old man.
Harry: We're the same age, Draco.
Draco: I wear it better. — J.K. Rowling

You get yourself prepared for a big game, you get yourself up for it. Then afterwards you don't sleep or eat properly. — Ryan Giggs

I've found that people work harder when they are held accountable, and their confidence level rises along with that. — Donald J. Trump

What's wrong with people?" she says, almost too quiet for me to hear. "Were they born with parts missing or did it fall out somewhere along the way? — Isaac Marion

In the animated Dreamworks movie Prince of Egypt the ancient Egyptians are drawn to appear more Arab than African. But the ancient Egyptians came originally from Africa's interior to the south. They were not Arabs, not people from Arabia, but indigenous Africans. Egyptian civilization was thousands of years old by the time the Arabs, with a modest army under General 'Amr ibn as- 'As, entered in December of 639 A.D. — Randall Robinson

People don't believe this, but Hollywood really is a meritocracy. — Rashida Jones

Marriage is an arrangement between like-minded parties. It's a partnership, not a love affair. I never lied to you or kept anything of importance from you.She looked at him then, almost stunned, as if she didn't recognize him.
He didn't like it. Not at all. — Mira Lyn Kelly