Fehlman Origin Quotes & Sayings

Tipping confounds me because it is not a reward but a travel tax, one of the many, one of the more insulting. No one is spared. It does not matter that you are paying thousands to stay in the presidential suite in the best hotel: the uniformed man seeing you to the elevator, inquiring about your trip, giving you a weather report, and carrying your bags to the suite expects money for this unasked-for attention. Out front, the doorman, gasconading in gold braid, wants a tip for snatching open a cab door, the bartender wants a proportion of your bill, so does the waiter, and chambermaids sometimes leave unambiguous messages, with an accompanying envelope, demanding cash. It is bad enough that people expect something extra for just doing their jobs; it is an even more dismal thought that every smile has a price. — Paul Theroux

Human life is beyond comprehension. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

An artist's work is almost entirely inquiry based and self-regulated. It is a fragile process of teaching oneself to work alone, and focusing on how to hone your quirky creative obsessions so that they eventually become so oddly specific that they can only be your own. — Teresita Fernandez

What had been intriguing on Monday and Tuesday was approaching annoying by Wednesday and exasperating by Thursday. — Dave Eggers

Creativity involves the depth of a mind, and many, many depths of unconsciousness. — Oliver Sacks

If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things. — Virginia Woolf

The morning sun Radiantly Rises above the frosty woods. — Dakotsu Iida

Nothing was given to me, nothing was entrusted to me, nothing was assigned to me. Everything I have, I took by right. — Francois Hollande

Who is so wise as to have a perfect knowledge of all things? Therefore trust not too much to thine own opinion, but be ready also to hear the opinion of others. Thought thine own opinion be good, yet if for the love of God thou foregoest it, and followest that of another, thou shalt the more profit thereby. — Thomas A Kempis

Getting sober is a radically creative act. — Meredith Bell