Dentelles Quotes

#1. In government and out, there are vast realms of the bureaucracy dedicated to seeking more information, in perpetuity if need be, in order to avoid taking action.

Meg Greenfield

#2. The walls in front of us are not there to keep us from achieving our desire. They are there to see how bad we want what we desire.

Bruce Alan Jensen

#3. If there is no peace in Central America, it will not be because Costa Rica, and myself as president, have not done what is necessary to obtain peace.

Oscar Arias

#4. It's certainly no coincidence that big bands became the entertainment of the army in WWI and WWII, and that jazz drumming style is very military influenced. The snare drum comes from the military and becomes the core kind of sound of jazz drums.

Damien Chazelle

#5. There is nothing so important in the family as the sacred quality of the meal.

Henri Nouwen

#6. What these men represented was not 'The West' but what was for this century a relatively new kind of monied class in America, a group devoid of social responsibilities because their ties to any one place had been so attenuated.

Joan Didion

#7. The reduction of anguish to Hallmark-card hurt. The

Taiye Selasi

#8. Adventure must start with running away from home.

William Bolitho

#9. There's sort of a very symbiotic thing that happens on good TV shows with great writers, which is that they start to sort of embrace who the actors are and try to make the roles more specific to what they bring and what they can do.

Lucas Neff

#10. It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

#11. You're dumb, but don't give in.

Ray Davies

#12. Freddie's face was anxious."Mike,you sure about Moe Greene selling?He never mentioned it me and he loves the business.I really don't think that he'll sell."
Michael said quietly,"I'll make him an offer he can't refuse."
The words were said casually yet the effect was chilling.

Mario Puzo