Mr Dimas Quotes & Sayings

Seemingly the most easy of crafts, drawing is the one which reveals most tellingly our incapacity to sustain true vision and our acquiescence to the ready-made. — Rico Lebrun

Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else BY GEOFF COLVIN — Daniel H. Pink

I made the decision. I want you more than I want heaven, more than I want to be an angel. I love you more than who I was created to be. — J.L. Sheppard

Many parents have experienced the fact that kids don't seem to honor their parents the way that previous generations of children did. The question we need to ask is, how did we get to this position? How did this lack of respect infiltrate even the closest family relationships? Most importantly, how can we make sure that it doesn't ruin our bond with our own teens? — Fiona Dimas-Herd

If one squinted into Cabeswater long enough, in the right way, one could see secrets dart between the trees. The shadows of horned animals that never appeared. The winking lights of another summer's fireflies. The rushing sound of many wings, the sound of a massive flock always out of sight. Magic. — Maggie Stiefvater

It was the end of the October term of my sophomore year, and everything was petty normal, except for Social Studies, which was no big surprise. Mr. Dimas, who taught the class, had a reputation for unconventional teaching methods. For midterms he had blindfolded us, then had us each stick a pin in a map of the world and we got to write essays on wherever the pin stuck. I got Decatur, Illinois. Some of the guys complained because they drew places like Ulan Bator or Zimbabwe. They were lucky. YOU try writing ten thousand words on Decatur, Illinois. — Neil Gaiman

Your body's really only meant to compete at the highest levels of combat sports for a few years. — Joe Rogan

Sometimes war is necessary to teach us the value of peace. Sometimes you need to learn the real value of diplomacy in avoiding war. And I'd rather my students learned those lessons on the playground than on the battlefield. — Neil Gaiman

Aficionado my ass ... I just love to smoke cigars — James Woods

Nothing is meaningful except surrendering to love. Do it. — Rumi

A soft word pacifies anger, and the discordant words break the harmony of the cosmic diapason, and generate disorders ... — Samael Aun Weor

Parenting should always come from a place of unconditional loving. — Fiona Dimas-Herd

There is something still more to be dreaded than a Jesuit and that is a Jesuitess. — Eugene Sue

Writing to make people smile — Dimas Abi