Stennes Dahl Quotes & Sayings

I'm a single girl. I like to have a good time. I just sleep with the guys in the band all the time because it's easier. — Lady Gaga

As the population of Georgia increased dramatically, so did development. — Roy Barnes

Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station ... There was never more flagrant nor impertinent folly than the smallest portion of ornament in anything connected with the railroads ... Railroad architecture has or would have a dignity of its own if it were only left to its work. — John Ruskin

Man knows, and in the course of years he comes to know it increasingly well, feeling it ever more acutely, that memory is weak and fleeting, and if he doesn't write down what he has learned and experienced, that which he carries within him will perish when he does. This is when it seems everyone wants to write a book. Singers and football players, politicians and millionaires. And if they themselves do not know how, or else lack the time, they commission someone else to do it for them ... engendering this reality is the impression of writing as a simple pursuit, though those who subscribe to that view might do well to ponder Thomas Mann's observation that, 'a writer is a man for whom writing is more difficult than it is for others — Ryszard Kapuscinski

One has to seek Beauty and Truth, Sir! As I always say to my pupils, you have to work to the finish. There's only one kind of painting. It is the painting that presents the eye with perfection, the kind of beautiful and impeccable enamel you find in Veronese and Titian. — William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Read your Bible, child; this world is not a paradise but a vale of tears. — Elizabeth Gilbert

You could have the world in the palm of your hand, but it don't mean a thing 'til you change it. — Mac Miller

In the meantime, though, the race for the Republican Party presidential nomination sure seems funny. The event known around the world as hashtagGOPClownCar is improbable, colossal, spectacular and shocking; epic, monumental, heinous and disgusting. It's like watching 17 platypuses try to mount the queen of England. You can't tear your eyes away from it. It — Matt Taibbi

The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Whenever the legislators endeavour to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any farther obedience, and are left to the common refuge which God hath provided for all men against force and violence. John Locke — Murray N. Rothbard

Like other kids wanted to become firemen or astronauts, I wanted to make people laugh. — Steven Wright

I want to say that nobody accuses their parents of abusing them without justification to do that. I didn't just make it up. A lot of things were true and abusive and horrible things that happened to me that my father did. — Roseanne Barr