Polychronis Dallas Quotes & Sayings

I make up stories about people who are either imaginary or some variation of myself. — Jami Attenberg

Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well. — Brian Eno

Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations. — Edmund Burke

I am absolutely stunned how the Democrats were able to somehow say that the Republicans had a war on women ... What was the war on women? — Foster Friess

Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it. — Brendan Behan

If all you talk about is what you have, it shows the less you have. — Pontius Joseph

We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war. — Mao Zedong

The style, often found difficult in the earlier books, is just as individual but more perfectly modulated to experience, and the dialogue is much closer to contemporary idiom, especially when those cadences have been masterfully twisted to satirical ends. — Geoffrey Dutton

Humans, like all other creatures, must make a difference; otherwise, they cannot live. But unlike other creatures, humans must make a choice as to the kind and scale of difference they make. If they choose to make too small a difference, they diminish their humanity. If they choose to make too great a difference, they diminish nature, and narrow their subsequent choices; ultimately, they diminish or destroy themselves. Nature, then, is not only our source but also our limit and measure. — Wendell Berry

We know there's no use in getting miserable, so we go out on the town instead! — Lee Ryan

Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where your headed — Jodi Picoult

Having Tourette's is wild, like being drunk all the while. Being on Haldol is dull, makes one square and sober, and neither state is really free ... You 'normals', who have the right transmitters in the right places at the right times in your brains, have all feelings, all styles, available all the time
gravity, levity, whatever is appropriate. We Touretters don't: we are forced into levity by our Tourette's and forced into gravity when we take Haldol. You are free, you have a natural balance: we must make the best of an artificial balance. — Oliver Sacks

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory. — Billy Joel