Dplace 73 Quotes

#1. The basic paradox about sex is that it always seems to be offering more than it can deliver. A glimpse of a girl undressing through a lighted bedroom window induces a vision of ecstatic delight, but in the actual process of persuading the girl into bed, the vision somehow evaporates.

Colin Wilson

#2. I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor.

Tony Campolo

#3. In the menu, there should be a climax and a culmination. Come to it gently. One will suffice.

Alice B. Toklas

#4. When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

#5. Facts have a tendency to obscure the truth.

Amos Oz

#6. The word "story" is short for the word "history." They both have the same root and fundamentally mean the same thing. A story is a narrative on an event or series of events, just like history.

James M. Kouzes

#7. Wisdom is earned, not given

Dante Alighieri

#8. Perfection is an illusion

Taylor Jade

#9. Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

Aristotle.

#10. I think the power of the mind is amazing, and we've barely scratched the surface of what it can do.

Charlie Sheen

#11. So over time, playing shows - after every show we would have pow-wow, I would have notes and we'd go over and we'd really restructure and re-do and now I feel really, really good about the show. But it's taken time.

Solange Knowles

#12. It is only if the primary or only reason you do what you do is to make money that you will envy every random person who made or makes a lot of money (or money that exceeds what you made or make).

Mokokoma Mokhonoana