Zigrida Demyt Quotes

#1. It is the truth which is always the hardest to believe.

Debasish Mridha

#2. My day had already had a good dose of bitterness, and I preferred to keep it from getting any sadder.

Maria Duenas

#3. Beauty is highly desirable but simplicity and usefulness are the overwhelming fashion of our age. Just because it's beautiful does not mean it's useful.

Gerry McGovern

#4. I am a woman who slept with my father the Pope.
They say I did, at least, and so does he.
And who am I to make of the Pope a liar,
And who is he to make a liar of me?

Gregory Maguire

#5. Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear.

Mason Cooley

#6. The same ten dollars you spend on lunch is all it costs for City Harvest to feed 37 kids who are hungry. That's pretty astounding.

Marcus Samuelsson

#7. I like happy sets. Happy sets are good, and I think people feel comfortable on them.

David Yates

#8. We have an excellent list of speakers, but the spark will be provided by the crowd to turn talk into action. The Iraq occupation and the government's bumbling effort in New Orleans, has people wanting to act.

Ed Garvey

#9. The world beyond is vast, but so small. Men putting themselves in boxes. Sitting at desks. Riding in cars. Ships. Here, the world is small, but without end.

Pierce Brown

#10. When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

Yann Martel

#11. I recently became vegan because I felt that as a Jewish lesbian, I wasn't part of a small enough minority. So now I'm a Jewish lesbian vegan.

Carol Leifer

#12. A few days before the [Mr. America] contest we heard rumors about a man who had throngs of people following him along the Lake Michigan Beach front, and we couldn't imagine who could draw crowds by merely walking along the beach!

George Eiferman

#13. What is right for the family is right for Britain.

Margaret Thatcher

#14. [Art is] an attempt to escape from life.

H.L. Mencken

#15. If I keep going outside, I get distracted - and all these lunches and things I get invited to, I just don't care. I just want to make the work. New York is very distracting.

Kesh