Galeas Rochester Quotes

#1. Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

Baltasar Gracian

#2. Try to look at everything through the eyes of a child.

Ruth Draper

#3. Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.

Allan Bloom

#4. In the furnace of fire, gold and silver are refined.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. Things speed up as you circle the drain.
Armistead Maupin on ageing

Armistead Maupin

#6. Jefferson had his own privy just steps away from his bed alcove, one of three in the house proper.12 He used pieces of scrap paper for hygiene purposes.13 (Examples were collected from his privy by a family member on the day of Jefferson's death and now survive in the Library of Congress.)14 He

Jon Meacham

#7. Self-deception comes from not having enough psychological strength to admit the truth and deal with the consequences that will follow when the truth is acknowledges.

Cortney S. Warren

#8. I knew comedy was the thing for me when I was the only Asian kid in high school ... who failed math.

Dat Phan

#9. If the majority of people were right, we'd be living in paradise. But we are not living in paradise, we are living in hell. What does it mean? That means the majority of people are wrong. So I never believed what people told me.

Marjane Satrapi

#10. Great characters tell their own stories. The author just writes it down for them.

Molly Evangeline