Gary Dowsett Quotes & Sayings

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful. — Robert Mapplethorpe

What's one more crazy thing in the midst of all this weirdness? — Simon R. Green

Reality is like a fine wine," he said to me. "It will not appeal to children. — Donald Miller

For Newman a university does not exist simply to convey information or expertise. The university is a society in which the student absorbs the graces and accomplishments of a higher form of life. In the university, according to Newman, the pursuit of truth and the active discussion of its meaning are integrated into a wider culture, in which the ideal of the gentleman is acknowledged as the standard. The gentleman does not merely know things; he is receptive to the tone, the meaning, the lived reality of what he knows. — Roger Scruton

The dignity of history consists in reciting events with truth and accuracy, and in presenting human agents and their actions in an interesting and instructive form. The first element in history, therefore, is truthfulness; and this truthfulness must be displayed in a concrete form. — Daniel Webster

I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world — Vivienne Westwood

I hear so many writers say - and these are writers that I trust completely - 'I just started hearing a voice', or, 'The characters came to life'. I am filled with loathing for my own characters when I hear that because they do nothing of the sort. Left to their own devices, they do nothing but drink coffee and complain about their lives. — Karen Joy Fowler

This is how the Dauntless mourn: by chasing grief into the oblivion of alcohol and leaving it there. — Veronica Roth

When I grew up in France, I was a normal size. And then I came to the United States and I gained 20 pounds. — Mireille Guiliano

I'm a little slow, so forgive me if I'm inarticulate. — Spike Jonze

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world? — Christopher Hitchens

I have turned down a lot of garbage lately. — Burt Lancaster