Wim Delvoye Quotes & Sayings

I finally like myself, at last I like myself. — Harry Chapin

They, the women, were like the gargoyles, Mattie thought. Respected in words, but hidden from view of those who ran the city and managing to live in the darkness, in the secret interstices of life. — Ekaterina Sedia

UF is Utilization Flight. That got put in the manifest quite some time ago. — Linda M. Godwin

Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right. — David Landes

Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations. — Paramahansa Yogananda

In my case there is another distance, another schism. I don't know Bengali perfectly. I don't know how to read it, or even write it. I have an accent, I speak without authority, and so I've always perceived a disjunction between it and me. As a result I consider my mother tongue, paradoxically, a foreign language, too. As — Jhumpa Lahiri

Remember, it's the quality of your ideas not the quantity that will result in the big money. — Joel Greenblatt

Purity, patience and perseverance are the three essentials to success and above all love. — Swami Vivekananda

Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric! — Johnny Vegas

I think that freedom means freedom for everyone. As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay, and it is something we have lived with for a long time in our family. I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. Any kind of arrangement they wish. — Dick Cheney

Maybe I'm misjudging people, but I feel like a lot of people still have an image of me in a bonnet at nine years old. — Anna Paquin

My wife gives good headache. — Rodney Dangerfield

The Spider as an Artist Has never been employed- Though his surpassing Merit Is freely certified. — Emily Dickinson

A 1967 New York Times editorial declared Milwaukee "America's most segregated city." A supermajority in both houses had helped President Johnson pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but legislators backed by real estate lobbies refused to get behind his open housing law, which would have criminalized housing discrimination. It took Martin Luther King Jr. being murdered on a Memphis balcony, and the riots that ensued, for Congress to include a real open housing measure later that year in the 1968 Civil Rights Act, commonly called the Fair Housing Act. — Matthew Desmond