Tristan Tzara Dada Quotes

#1. I speak only of myself since I do not wish to convince, I have no right to drag others into my river, I oblige no one to follow me and everybody practices his art in his own way." - Tristan Tzara "Dada Manifesto 1918

Tristan Tzara

#2. I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

#3. A Republican is a man who wants you to go t'church every Sunday. A Democrat says if a man wants to have a glass of beer, he can have it.

Karen Abbott

#4. Look at the world through your vision not through the misperceptions of others.

Debasish Mridha

#5. Dada is not modern at all, it is rather a return to a quasi-Buddhist religion of indifference. Dada puts an artificial sweetness onto things, a snow of butterflies coming out of a conjurer's skull. Dada is stillness and does not understand the passions.

Tristan Tzara

#6. I had racially prejudiced comments directed at me on different blogs. People think that just because you're in the spotlight, you're fair game. It's hard, and I don't think you're ready at any age for it. Thankfully, I have some great fans who got me through it.

Kat Graham

#7. Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind.

Milan Kundera

#8. In the Everybody-Give-Me-A-Hug victim culture in which we live, the obese want a spot at the table along with those who face discrimination based on the way that God or Nature or our Intelligent Designer created us.

John Ridley

#9. I never thought about success. I always thought about doing the job at hand. My goal was getting through the show that night.

Steve Martin

#10. Pursuing your dreams in spite of opposition is a revolution against mediocrity. By challenging yourself, you transform those around you.

M.J. Stoddard

#11. One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.

Francis Collins

#12. Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE

Tristan Tzara

#13. In New York people don't go to the theatre - they go to see hits.

Louis Jourdan

#14. To make a poem, take one newspaper, one pair of scissors, snip the words one by one and put them in a bag. Shake gently, draw them out at random, and copy them conscientiously ... DADA est mort. DADA est idiot. Vive DADA!

Tristan Tzara

#15. The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.

Anonymous

#16. I was reading all these male writers who were doing wild and wonderful things. It gave me permission to experiment.

Sandra Cisneros

#17. Dear me! If only men and women would trust, understand and help as my children do, what a capital place 'the world would be!

Louisa May Alcott

#18. Every page should explode, either because of its staggering absurdity, the enthusiasm of its principles, or its typography.

Tristan Tzara

#19. The challenge throughout has been to tell what I view as the truth about racism without causing disabling despair.

Derrick Bell