Dustoff Association Quotes & Sayings

I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens. — Georg Baselitz

The insignificant matters of daily life are the important tests of eternity because they prove what Spirit truly dwells within us. — Andrew Murray

When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have. — Owen Wister

Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Because if you believe you can, then you really will. That belief just keeps you searching for the answers, then pretty soon you get it. — Wally Amos

There has long been a bemoaning of the lack of opportunity to make films that are anything but explosions or the ladling on the pea soup or whatever you want to call it. You can hardly make a movie where somebody isn't a murderer or a rapist or, if it's a "Fried Green Tomatoes" that isn't some wistful thing on this, that or the other thing. — Jack Nicholson

Of course, it's imperative that we stabilize Iraq and quickly reduce our armed role there. — David Hackworth

The only mainstream American household I know well is the one I grew up in, and I can report that my father, who was not a reader, nevertheless had some acquaintance with James Baldwin and John Cheever, because Time magazine put them on its cover and Time, for my father, was the ultimate cultural authority. In the last decade, the magazine whose red border twice enclosed the face of James Joyce has devoted covers to Scott Turow and Stephen King. These are honorable writers; but no one doubts it was the size of their contracts that won them covers. The dollar is now the yardstick of cultural authority, and an organ like Time, which not long ago aspired to shape the national taste, now serves mainly to reflect it. — Jonathan Franzen

Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition. — Mark Twain

We can leave our legacy only if we are willing to change - to go beyond partisan labels, and to solve the problems facing Washingtonians. — Christine Gregoire

A guitar is more than just a sound box ... it is part of your soul. — Manuel Velazquez

It was becoming evident to many that while evil grows all by itself, good can be achieved only through hard struggle and maintained only through tireless effort, .. — Heda Margolius Kovaly

The precondition for thinking politically on a global scale is to see the unity of the unnecessary suffering taking place. * — John Berger

Time lost can never be retrieved. Time cannot be hoarded, only spent well. — J. Oswald Sanders