Diane Pernet Quotes

#1. ...the wrath of God pales beside that of man.

Felix J. Palma

#2. If you construct a room in paint, you haunt it. Your life rests in every stroke. So paint only the rooms that you can bear to occupy forever. Or paint the stars instead.

Benjamin Wood

#3. Human beings understand too much.

Seung Sahn

#4. If only they could live in the twilight of their dreams, in the tiny moment before the harsh light of reality found them, perhaps they could be happy.

D.A. Henneman

#5. I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied.

Ken Livingstone

#6. A little bit about my family: We didn't really come from much, and we didn't take family trips to California, so my first trip to California was actually my first day of school.

Bresha Webb

#7. Why is it trivia? People call it trivia because they know nothing and they are embarrassed about it.

Robbie Coltrane

#8. In many ways Churchill remained a nineteenth-century man, and by no means a common man. He fit the mold of what Henry James called in English Hours persons for whom the private machinery of ease has been made to work with extraordinary smoothness.

William Manchester

#9. If you are a woman, if you are a person of colour, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world.

Margaret Cho

#10. The more honest you are, the more open, the less fear you will have, because there's no anxiety about being exposed or revealed to others.

Dalai Lama XIV

#11. Many writers were picked on as children. Why? Because they were weird from the get-go. They were often to be found at the back of the class smelling erasers, or talking to caterpillars, or walking down the street with an encyclopedia balanced on their head.

Heather O'Neill

#12. Before feminism was, Paglia was!

Camille Paglia

#13. Everyone wants to change humanity, but no one is willing to change themselves.

Leo Tolstoy

#14. The way you wield your power is about using it to afford you opportunities that you wouldn't otherwise have. So I'm very creatively ambitious, and I just hope people notice it; that's all I want.

Bat For Lashes