Dvorat Small Quotes & Sayings

Read comics. All comics. And then cut them open to steal their power. — Warren Ellis

The process of putting the thing you value most in the world out for the assessment of strangers is a confidence-shaking business even in the best of times. But in Lucy's circumstances it was sheer heroism, a real sign of her devotion to her art. She was, in a sense, sitting at a craps table with her last stack of chips, trying again and again to hit it big. — Ann Patchett

Office tends to confer a dreadful plausibility on even the most negligible of those who hold it. — Mark Lawson

The basis of all good human behavior is kindness. — Eleanor Roosevelt

For all that beauty that doth cover thee
Is but the seemly raiment of my heart,
Which in thy breast doth live, as thine in me.
How can I then be elder than thou art? — William Shakespeare

It is easier to confront a threat as a mass, a group, not individuals who must be evaluated one by one ... — Cassandra Clare

It is in vain, I perceive, to look for ease and happiness in a world of troubles. — George Washington

I am for an art that imitates the human, that is comic, if necessary, or violent, or whatever is necessary. I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips, and is heavy and coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself. — Claes Oldenburg

No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket or at least had been fooling around with timetables. — Rex Stout

The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size — Albert Einstein

I remember the Food Network when it was first starting out: Emeril Lagasse and all those people who helped make it when it was on a shoestring budget. It actually encouraged me to start cooking. — Robert Battle

It's a shame short men don't wear heels; it would save the world a lot of trouble. — Rachel Joyce

I honestly believe that the counsel I gave Curt was mainly sound, and I don't think too much of it was holier-than-thou. I tried to give him a code to live by. He wanted not one scrap of it, he didn't agree with a single value that I held. — Wallace Stegner

Habaneros have a great fruity flavor, but the challenge is that you have to deflect the heat in order to taste the flavor. If you don't, you're dead. They should really have a warning sign on them. Deflect the habanero's heat by pairing it with sweet food. — Bobby Flay