Jofer Dillon Quotes & Sayings

I am not a sentimental or superstitious person, so I don't have any pre-performance rituals. I am a very practical woman. After a performance I am always hopeful that I will lure someone home for a ritual of a more personal nature. — Vaginal Davis

Despised as ineffective, they were ineffective because they were despised. — Barbara W. Tuchman

I love tulips better than any other spring flower; they are the embodiment of alert cheerfulness and tidy grace, and next to a hyacinth look like a wholesome, freshly tubbed young girl beside a stout lady whose every movement weighs down the air with patchouli. Their faint, delicate scent is refinement itself; and is there anything in the world more charming than the sprightly way they hold up their little faces to the sun. I have heard them called bold and flaunting, but to me they seem modest grace itself, only always on the alert to enjoy life as much as they can and not be afraid of looking the sun or anything else above them in the face. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work. — John Kenneth Galbraith

1. Is anything impossible for the grace of God? Suppose you bring a light into a room that has been dark a thousand years; does it remove the darkness little by little? The room is lighted all at once. Intense renunciation is what is needed. — Ramakrishna

Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap one through "opinions" and sometimes through ridicule, which is meant to be humorous. Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning, but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through "opinions" or ridicule. — Napoleon Hill

Proper learning isn't just useful in society, Beryl. It can be wonderfully yours, a thing to have and keep just for you. — Paula McLain

Though we live amid promiscuous pressures, spiritual clutter and forgetfulness, we probably still value the integrity of life. — Baker Brownell

Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic. — Laini Taylor

The Savior of all mankind left the ninety and nine to find the one lost. That one who was lost need not have become lost. — Gordon B. Hinckley

Obviously, you can't control everything, but you are obliged to take care of the few things you can. I'm an optimist, basically, who acts like a pessimist. On principle. Just in case. — Russell Banks

I can't say that I wouldn't prefer to make small films, basically because I think they are probably more interesting in terms of the material. But every now and again, it's quite good to do a big one. — John Hurt

The odd thing in this world is that an eager-beaver type, with no original ideas, who mimes those in authority above him right to the last twist of necktie and scrape of chin, always gets noticed. Gets selected. Rises. — Philip K. Dick