Lady Dorothy Nevill Quotes & Sayings

I would tell my staff about the "dinosaur's tail": As a leader grows more senior, his bulk and tail become huge, but like the brontosaurus, his brain remains modestly small. When plans are changed and the huge beast turns, its tail often thoughtlessly knocks over people and things. That the destruction was unintentional doesn't make it any better. — Stanley McChrystal

I'm fiercely proud to be Scottish. — Ewan McGregor

Hail to the Victorious Parasol! — Gail Carriger

You can't be blocked if you just keep on writing words. Any words. People who get 'blocked' make the mistake of thinking they have to write good words. — Martha Grimes

I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit. — Phil Collins

Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence. — Mahatma Gandhi

When I write a book ... it's the same essential approach to music as with books. It has to be something I want to hear or read. Hopefully the audience comes along, since that's the only way you can write righteously. I have to ask, 'What do I want to hear?' not 'What do people want to hear?' — Corey Taylor

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know. — Epicurus

Sadness is
Steam rising
Tears falling
A breath you take in
But can't let out
As hard as you try. — Patricia MacLachlan

What do you say when you are not enough to make someone stay. — Katie Kacvinsky

My cousin gave me a twin-neck electric guitar for one of my birthdays. It was amazing. Even though it was mine, I was never allowed to pick it up. — Sam Palladio

As you you deeply into your own awareness, and relax the self-contraction, and dissolve into the empty ground of your own primordial experience, the simply feeling of Being-right now, right here-is it not obvious at once? — Ken Wilber

The folly and the glory of the world ... the wild, the wise and the wicked ... the hero, the madman, the wanderer and the fool ... the earth, the seas, the wild heavens ... are all part of an endless, unfolding tapestry, woven by time and hemmed by memory. — Brian Holguin

I love experiencing other people's realities, seeing the world through their eyes for a short period of time. — Josh Lucas