Diercks Foundation Quotes

#1. I have no flaws, I'm perfect at being imperfect.

Krystyna Faroe

#2. What men deny is not God, but some preposterous idol of the imagination.

George Tyrrell

#3. I was hugely formed by stories I was told as a child whether that was in a book, the cinema, theatre or television and probably television more than any medium is what influenced me as a child and formed my response to literature, story-telling and, therefore, the world around me.

David Tennant

#4. My memories of them had rubbed thin with overuse, worn to frail color transparencies flickering on the walls of my mind

Tana French

#5. Now the opportunity to destroy the USSR has arrived.

Sadao Araki

#6. We can't have everything! It took a lot of growing up for me to realize this unalterable fact and to discipline myself into accepting it.

Loretta Young

#7. When I wrote about Mary Wollstonecraft, I found that here she was, in the late 18th century, going to work for the 'Analytical Review.' What was the 'Analytical Review?' It was a magazine that dealt with politics and literature.

Claire Tomalin

#8. It's funny, I can see the science in how music is made with other artists, but it's hard for me to dissect my own thing.

Questlove

#9. All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

Ugo Betti

#10. Let every youth take a leaf out of my book and make it a point to account for everything that comes into and goes out of his pocket, and like me he is sure to be a gainer in the end.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. I like Flea, I like him as a musician.

Ziggy Marley

#12. To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. I've actually not read any books on time management.

Elon Musk

#14. Much of the stress and emptiness that haunt us can be traced back to our lack of attention to beauty. Internally, the mind becomes coarse and dull if it remains unvisited by images and thoughts that hold the radiance of beauty.

John O'Donohue

#15. It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.

Roger Ebert