Dukke Quotes & Sayings

The poet's first rule must be never to bore his readers; and his best way of keeping this rule is never to bore himself-which, of course, means to write only when he has something urgent to say. — Robert Graves

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. — Annie Dillard

Marathoning is a metaphor for life, so there are a lot of parallels you can draw. I tell people to follow your dream, follow your heart, follow your passion, run your own race and believe in yourself. I think anybody who wants to succeed has to have passion. My love for this sport, you can't instill it in someone else. — Joan Benoit

By persistent hard work you will rise to success, but ultimately your accomplishments will be measured by how you treated your loved ones on the way up. — Wes Fesler

Group projects are the exception in school, but they should be the norm. — Seth Godin

I am a visual man. I watch, watch, watch. I understand things through my eyes. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong. — Lemony Snicket

New life, new hope, new joy will start when this is given from the heart. — Melody Carlson

Thus disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last was complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress, and have never since doubted even for a single second that my conclusion was correct. — Charles Darwin

The only thing you want is to come back alive. — Felix Baumgartner

One is more admired for claiming to do good than for proving to be right. — Emmett Tyrrell

This sectarianism is an attempt to leap away from the narrow path of the paradox and become a tragic hero at a cheap price. The tragic hero expresses the universal and sacrifices himself for it. The sectarian punchinello, instead of that, has a private theatre, i.e. several good friends and comrades who represent the universal — Soren Kierkegaard

I'm very proud of my roles. I enjoy the ability to touch millions of people and, in some way, connect with them in ways that I cannot connect with them in my normal, everyday life. — Delroy Lindo

Fundamentalism is to Christianity what paint-by-numbers is to art. With — Brian Zahnd

One could count on one's fingers the number of scientists throughout the world with a general idea of the history and development of their particular science: there is none who is really competent as regards sciences other than his own. As science forms an indivisible whole, one may say that there are no longer, strictly speaking, scientists, but only drudges doing scientific work ... — Simone Weil