Quoc Dai Quotes & Sayings

After the dazzling orgies in form and color of the eighteenth century, art was put on a diet, and allowed nothing but the straight line. This sort of progress ended in ugliness. Art reduced to a skeleton, was the result. This was the advantage of this kind of wisdom and abstinence; the style was so sober that it became lean. — Victor Hugo

Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night ... Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees. — Anthony Trollope

Feeding plants to animals then eating the animals is like filtering water through a sewer then drinking it. — Bruce Friedrich

Genesis knew he was crossing a line within his own moral boundaries and judgement but he pushed straight through it nonetheless. His job required him to be morally neutral and for the first time in his entire life he was actually having to introspectively consider that he was slightly more judgemental than even he had realised. — Jill Thrussell

Children would only get in the way of our erotic lifestyle! — Mink Stole

It wasn't until after I'd been around Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley and Alan Watts, that I started to reflect about issues like the evolution of consciousness. — Ram Dass

When you see grown men near to tears because they've missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh. — Bill Murray

Art is always to an extent about trying to create order out of chaos. — Will Gompertz

Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home. — Eric Sevareid

The house was immaculate, as always, not a stray hair anywhere, not a flake of dandruff or a crumpled towel. Even the roses on the dining-room table held their breath. A kind of airless cleanliness that always made me want to sneeze. — Sandra Cisneros

A fine way to capture a piece of the magic of a unique city. The drama, the charm and the beauty of Hong Kong is all here-just as is its breathless energy. — Nury Vittachi

It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

When we hate a man, we hate in him something which resides in us ourselves. What is not in us does not move us." Never — Hermann Hesse

Cyn stopped, drawing a deep breath. "Will you answer the fucking question or not? There's more at stake here than Raphael's Dick" Duncan choked back a laugh. — D.B. Reynolds