Dyllan Christopher Quotes & Sayings

Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation. — John Cage

She had read articles over the years about a man's supposed biological craving for young women: it was all about primeval procreation, in theory, the need to plant seed in fertile soil. Maybe ... She thought of a line from Nabokov: "Because you took advantage of my disadvantage." Lolita. In this case, however, Kristin felt that she was at the disadvantage - not the young thing. The truth was, she feared, all men were Humbert Humbert. Maybe they weren't pedophiles lusting after twelve-year-olds, but didn't Lolita look old for her age? Older, anyway? Sure, there were MILFs in porn, but Kristin had a feeling that considerably more men wanted their porn stars to be students at Duke University than moms from the bleachers at a middle-school soccer game. — Chris Bohjalian

I've never been a calm, midrange type person. — Eddie Vedder

The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. — Warren Bennis

I was a TV producer at a noncommercial station, and we were producing some good documentaries - on Head Start, on poverty. But I was struck by the children, and the damage that poverty was doing to them. I didn't think filming them was helping much, so I wondered how we could use TV for them, to teach them. — Joan Ganz Cooney

If a goal is only success oriented and not happiness oriented, then it will fill your life with stress, anxiety, and frustration. — Debasish Mridha

God made all pleasures innocent. — Caroline Norton

I'm outa here, I'm only playing one song, and I'm not coming back for ten years! And when I come back..! — The Rev

You see, I don't think age matters so much as people think. Parts of me are still 12 and I think other parts were already 50 when I was 12 ... . — C.S. Lewis

Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed; after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed. — Anthony De Mello

Without a computer, every point on a structure has to be calculated with reference to everything else. But by using a PC, I can create complex curves that don't have radii or centers. — Greg Lynn

It's great to get paid for what you love doing most. To enjoy your work. And to follow that. It's important. — Dennis Quaid

When Lindsey and I played Barbies Barbie and Ken got married at sixteen. To us there was only one true love in everyone's life we have no concept of compromise or retries. — Alice Sebold

The only sound I'd like to hear from a Motivational Speaker is a death rattle — Dean Cavanagh

In interpreting a work of art, we draw upon our own aims and endeavors, inform it with a meaning that has its origin in our own ways of life and thought. In a word, any art that really affects us becomes to that extent modern art. — Arnold Hauser