Itzy Dalla Dalla Quotes & Sayings

Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I don't think we'll ever know all there is to know about gardening, and I'm just as glad there will always be some magic about it! — Barbara Damrosch

I look for the consensus because the consensus drives the policy into new places. — Catherine Ashton

I can't find a man I want, and I'm beginning to think the problem is me. Maybe I expect too much. Maybe I'm holding out for something that doesn't even exist. She'd voiced her secret fear. Maybe grand passion was just a dream. With all the kissing she'd done in the past few months, she'd not once been overcome with desire. Her parents certainly hadn't had any great passion between them. Come to think of it, she wasn't sure she'd ever seen grand passion outside of a movie theater or a book. — Karen Marie Moning

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. — Isaac Asimov

They said that Etta James is still vulgar. I said, Oh, how dare them say I'm still vulgar. I'm vulgar because I dance in the chair. What would they want me to do? Want me to just be still or something like that? I've got to do something. — Etta James

That's the power of the open-source approach to intellectual goods. Even if Monsanto had wanted to control the world's gran, the company would never have succeeded: farmers save and share seeds, and in countries like Bangladesh and India national seed-breeding programs have been instituted to make sure people can get seed they can afford. There are open-source grains and cheap public seed banks in many developing countries. — Michael Specter

It's really hard to find parts that challenge me as an actor these days. At this point in my career, I feel like I can just sleepwalk through most of my roles and still do a better job than 90 percent of the actors out there. — Zach Braff

We use the Air Force analogy: there were expensive things they had to do to get a cockpit suitable for a lot of pilots, like wraparound windshields, but their initial solutions, when they realized average didn't work, were adjustable seats. How in the world did they not already have adjustable seats in their planes? We're looking for adjustable seats for education, for basic things that we can do. — L. Todd Rose

Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all. — C.S. Lewis

With patient course thy path of duty run;
God nothing does, nor suffers to be done,
What thou wouldst do thyself, couldst thou but see;
The end of all events as well as He. — Marshall Broomhall

My father wasn't a hard guy. He was a well-liked guy. He had a lot of compassion about things in life. There were rules, but there was also flexibility within those rules. He didn't push me when it came to golf: he just taught me the right way to play the game. — Tom Watson

I have directed all of my cabinet to work to prepare a transition plan for the incoming administration. — Scott McCallum