Inspiratie Dex Quotes & Sayings

On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead. — Don Ellis

What?" She burrowed closer, tucking her fingers against the collar of my shirt.
Throwing my arm around her waist, I took what felt like the first real breath in weeks. "If I had a Mogwai, I'd totally feed it after midnight. That Mohawk gremlin was a badass."
She laughed again, the sound tinkling inside me, and I felt about a thousand pounds lighter. "Why doesn't that surprise me?" she said. "You'd totally bond with the gremlin."
"What can I say? It's my sparkling personality. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined. — Mark Twain

Salvakalpa samadhi is a tremendous acceptance and liberation, but it is not complete absorption in nirvana, in that consciousness. — Frederick Lenz

Spurts don't count. The final score makes no mention of a splendid start if the finish proves that you were an also ran. — Herbert Kaufman

Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours. — William James

America has been the New World in all tongues, to all peoples, not because this continent was a new-found land, but because all those who came here believed they could create upon this continent a new life
a life that should be new in freedom. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Meeting our audiences, or at least the members of the audience who would like to meet us, makes us different from other entertainers. We aren't scared of our audiences. We've learned that the crowds that other entertainers might hate - the quiet crowds - include many people who are loving the show. I love quiet crowds now; I don't see them as lacking enthusiasm, I see them as paying attention. We've learned that a joke that didn't get a loud laugh might be someone's favorite line. — Penn Jillette

I like experimenting with different color lip glosses and lipsticks and things like that. — Jordyn Wieber

You always lose a lot of money chasing after women, but you will never lose a lot of women chasing after money — Foster "Raul" Mkhabele

We all have value; our unique gifts are needed in this time and place, and we should never forget this in times of struggle and hardship. — Russell Eric Dobda

Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon. — Karl Rove

The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds — Thomas Merton

What does it matter if another player, your friend or rival, intended good things and had only your interests at heart, if the effects of his action lead to so much ruin and confusion? It is only natural for people to cover up their actions with all kinds of justifications, always assuming that they have acted out of goodness. You must learn to inwardly laugh each time you hear this and never get caught up in gauging someone's intentions and actions through a set of moral judgments that are really an excuse for the accumulation of power. — Robert Greene

Mystical writing was indeed the forerunner of today's radical theology and deconstruction ...
Jacques Derrida can be described as an intellectual subversive whose work leads to the view that any text may be interpreted to mean almost anything, and as a mystic will.
Well, yes, mystical writing is indeed politically and linguistically subversive and always was so the mystic seeks to create an effect of religious happiness by liberating religious language from the Babylonian captivity of metaphysics. When the writing does succeed in melting God and the soul down into each other, the effect of happiness is astonishing. — Don Cupitt