Rollande Pappas Quotes & Sayings

A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself. — George Bernard Shaw

Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace. — John Bayley

When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant. — John Phillips Marquand

I'd like to know
what this whole show
is all about
before it's out. — Piet Hein

I always thought about 'Station to Station' as an approach. It was about creating an alternative platform for culture where different mediums could co-exist. — Doug Aitken

Nobody's born rotten. You just don't have bad kids. It's not true. There is no such thing. But we can make them bad. — Jean Liedloff

I mean people, people don't get ,they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed and you can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is, and he's doing these things, you know, and he's getting rich, and your spouse is getting unhappy with you because you aren't doing pretty soon you start doing it. And so you get what I call the natural progression, the three Is. The innovators, the imitators, and the idiots. — Howard Warren Buffett

Ever since there have been people, there have been explorers, looking in places where other hadn't been before. Not everyone does it, but we are part of a species where some members of the species do-to the benefit of us all. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

The last time the French asked for 'more proof' it came marching into Paris under a German flag — David Letterman

In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions. — William Sloane Coffin

In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters. — Olivia Wilde

I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being. — Benjamin Franklin