Dejongs Sawdust Quotes

#1. The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.

Plato

#3. Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics.

Seth Lloyd

#4. When every young man refuses to go to war, you will have peace. You do not defend any idea with violence.

Jane Roberts

#5. I don't see myself as having made the transition. I aim to be more transient than transitional. Life is constantly changing, now at a rate faster than ever, so being in a transitory state is the best way to keep pace.

Marc Forster

#6. The human heart refuses To believe in a universe Without a purpose.

Immanuel Kant

#7. I never understood the need for a "live" audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.

Igor Stravinsky

#8. Everybody has to die. Why cry, when you have wings to fly! -RVM

R.v.m.

#9. Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time.

Eileen Myles

#10. At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.

Carrie Underwood