Vanite Quotes & Sayings

I'm very sad to be compared with Warhol and The Factory, because I have no drugs, you know. We have no drug culture in Japan! Maybe it's because our attitude toward labor is totally different. — Takashi Murakami

I have restaurants, bookshops ... but it's not an empire, more ... a puzzle. If it were an empire, all my restaurants would be the same. — Alain Ducasse

You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak. — George Clooney

Oblivion was increasingly attractive, since why retain your brain when no amount of thinking could even begin to solve the problem? — Margaret Atwood

At first, I thought 'this series is going to be all about death and desecration,' but instead became a more complex landscape of human relationships. I hope I put something of these feelings into the portraits that I made of the characters, which were landscapes in themselves. An irony in the subject of crystal meth is how beautifully it resembles the desert sky. — Ralph Steadman

In life, occasional problems makes us humble. — Debasish Mridha

I want my wife to wake me up with a sweet kiss — Lee Donghae

I think in times of crisis it's the artists' responsibility to dig a little deeper. — Bruce Pavitt

Since I make my living as a literary journalist, not a book scout, I spend inordinate amounts of time either reading or writing. — Michael Dirda

For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance. — Sharon Salzberg

To be honest, I can't imagine how anyone could say 'I'm weak' and then stay that way. If you know that about yourself, why not fight it, why not develop your character? Their answer has always been: 'Because it's much easier not to! — Anne Frank

Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry. — Cornelia Funke

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary. — Christina Baldwin

The life of every man is in the Center of Time, for all were seen in the seeing of Meshe, and are in his eye. We are the pupils of his Eye ... Our doing is his Seeing: our being is his Knowing. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The establishment people tell us that if the workers wanted to share the profits, it was called communism. When management wants to share profits, it's called a bonus. — Phil Donahue