Dustbin Designs Quotes & Sayings

Learn to spot and avoid "writer groupies." The writer's self-sufficiency and our love for our work tend to attract insecure people who never can get enough love. They grow jealous of our work and come to regard it as a rival. These people can destroy you, so kick them out of your life or don't admit them in the first place. — Florence King

Because my main concern is the Tibetan Buddhist culture, not just political independence, I cannot seek self-rule for central Tibet and exclude the 4 million Tibetans in our two eastern provinces of Amdo and Kham. — Dalai Lama

No higher proof exists of the strength of popular government than, though the chosen of the people be struck down, his constitutional successor is peacefully installed without shock or strain. — Chester A. Arthur

All this talk of oblivion, of wanting nothing and becoming nobody, seems rather contradictory from a Buddhist sense. The Buddha did all this himself and he became so much a nobody that he became famous, the biggest nobody of them all. And he will never disappear, because fame has made him immortal. But I do admire him for his attitude and discipline. He was a good Indian son. — Amy Tan

Coming up with comedy is hard, man. Those bits aren't easy to think of! — Craig Robinson

Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes. — G. Willow Wilson

My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets. — Rita Dove

Don't be scared to be intelligent. Knowledge is sexy and powerful. — Ziad K. Abdelnour