Dujour Assembly Quotes & Sayings

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes. — Thomas Carlyle

It takes a fraction of the time it took us to generate and build to tear down the trust that we have developed over the years... — Assegid Habtewold

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors. — Lyndon B. Johnson

I wouldn't call myself a modern Shakespeare, but Shakespeare was probably to his generation what I am to mine. — Zach Braff

I always wanted to have my own boutiques. I'm so passionate about clothing and always have been so business-minded. — Amy Childs

They talked on into the early morning, the high, pale cast of light in the windows, and they did not think of leaving. — Raymond Carver

A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things. — N. Scott Momaday

There is nothing left to seek for in this world when it can be exchanged for another one. No thought of gain or loss, winning or losing, success or failure ever had any meaning. Fantasy is not real and dreaming is not Being One. You are ready to Awaken to Oneness. And as you awaken the whole world awakens as well. For the world was never more than a misperception. As perception becomes whole, the single mind sees only wholeness. At last you are ready to see with Inner Vision, and you realize that physical sight was nothing but the illusion of being in the dark. The Light has come and it is time to rejoice! It is time! — David Hoffmeister

we are never our own.
we must change this fact.

- acceptance — Nayyirah Waheed

Remember, how often the great art of the past didn't look great at first, how often it didn't look like art at all; how much easier it is, decades or centuries later, to adore it, not only because it is, in fact, great but because it's still here; because the inevitable little errors and infelicities tend to recede in an object that's survived the War of 1812, the eruption of Krakatoa, the rise and fall of Nazism. — Michael Cunningham

Voluntary simplicity has more to do with the state of mind than a person's physical surroundings and possessions. — Duane Elgin

Systems, whether educational or political, are not changed mysteriously; they are transformed when there is a fundamental change in ourselves. — Krishnamurti

I noticed when I was writing the book that I would tend to mention 'outside' songs right through to about the middle of the 70's. And then all of a sudden that starts disappearing from the book, and just about everything I'm talking about from that point on are the records that I'm totally involved in. — Bernie Finkelstein

I think as women we've always been very used to growing up reading and identifying with male protagonists, especially in fantasy. There's a saying in publishing that girls will read about boys, but boys will only read about boys, and it's important to give women strong heroines. — Cassandra Clare

Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world. — Peter Davison