Patrick Reusse Quotes & Sayings

Miles got a mystique about him-plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more money. — Dizzy Gillespie

The reality that we were growing up in was very young and vibrant, and nobody was capturing that part of India. I started to backpack after getting out of college. I hiked and did a lot of things nobody was capturing in art at all in India, so I wrote my first novel. It was a very, trippy, experience-filled novel, and it ended up doing very well in India because nobody was writing about that at that point. — Karan Bajaj

Words have always had the power to change the world. — Terry Pratchett

My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me. — Luc Ferrari

Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality. — Maria Edgeworth

God is the Absolute Idea, a circle that returns upon itself, not a straight line projected indefinitely. — Joseph Alexander Leighton

I watched Picasso visit the Planet of the Apes, as the masters rot on walls and the angels eat the grapes. — Adam Ant

He was commissioned to go east to Nineveh, — Anonymous

A leader is a steward of trust. — Idowu Koyenikan

Only while under the dominion of fear do men fall a prey to superstition; that all the portents ever invested with the reverence of misguided religion are mere phantoms of dejected and fearful minds; and lastly, that prophets have most power among the people, and are most formidable to rulers, precisely at those times when the state is in most peril. I think this is sufficiently plain to all, and will therefore say no more on the subject. — Christopher Hitchens

It is difficult to see how Gandhi's methods could be applied in a country where opponents of the regime disappear in the middle of the night and are never heard of again. Without a free press and the right of assembly, it is impossible not merely to appeal to outside opinion, but to bring a mass movement into being, or even to make your intentions known to your adversary. Is there a Gandhi in Russia at this moment? And if there is, what is he accomplishing? — George Orwell

We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world. — Jack Gilbert