Tassilo Von Quotes & Sayings

This is the theory ... that anything that is art ... is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it's no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it's irritating. — Edward Gorey

When you think that you lost everything you find out you can always lose a little more. — Bob Dylan

You can choose a direction that will take you into something that isn't going to take you where you want to go, or you can choose another direction which is down the right pathway. — Kerry Stokes

We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life and march beyond even their great achievements. — Swami Vivekananda

Every company has to identify what I call its strategic resources, and make sure that it grabs as much of its strategic resources as possible. — N. R. Narayana Murthy

An odd by-product of my loss is that I'm aware of being an embarrassment to everyone I meet. At work, at the club, in the street, I see people, as they approach me, trying to make up their minds whether they'll 'say something about it' or not. I hate it if they do, and if they don't. Some funk it altogether. R. has been avoiding me for a week. I like best the well brought-up young men, almost boys, who walk up to me as if I were a dentist, turn very red, get it over, and then edge away to the bar as quickly as they decently can. Perhaps the bereaved ought to be isolated in special settlements like lepers. — C.S. Lewis

In order for men to partake of the fruit of felicity,they must plant the seeds thereof. — Neal A. Maxwell

A lie will raise me up, and one day another lie will bring me down. — Victoria Aveyard

We are human beings, not human doings. — Rick Warren

Some 5 billion years from now, there will be a last perfect day on Earth ... then the sun will begin to die, life will be extinguished, the oceans will boil and evaporate away. — Carl Sagan

Public service announcements were first created by the Ad Council during World War II to get Rosie to work and to tighten loose lips. In 1971, on the second Earth Day, the world met "the crying Indian," played by Iron Eyes Cody. The famous anti-pollution ad, which showed Cody paddling a canoe and watching motorists litter, effectively gave the new ecology movement a huge boost. As it turns out, Cody was of Italian descent (real name Espera DeCorti), but he appeared in hundreds of movies and TV shows as a Native American and denied his European ancestry until his death in 1999. — Mark Jacob

I didn't see it as someone who worked as hard as I did. But now that Saint Laurent is part of history, it makes me a part of history, so, yes, finally it's not such a bad thing to have been a muse. — Loulou De La Falaise