D.B.C. Pierre Quotes

The ostrich is the only animal officially endowed with political direction.

Respect your opponent, just make them respect you more.

Always pursue your dreams and work hard at it.

Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character.

Growth is a long term game, and the crappy days are more important.

Thanks to his willingness to face me, my life takes shape, my path evolves.

[W]e need to talk over not only those things which are of vital importance to us as women, but also the things that are of especial interest to us as colored women.

To obtain a woman who loves you, you must treat her as if she didn't.

He who forgives readily only invites offense.

We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada.

The whole life lies in the verb seeing.

The task for us now, if we are to survive, is to build the earth.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment.

It is certainly much easier wholly to decline a passion than to keep it within just bounds and measures; and that which few can moderate almost anybody may prevent.

How many days have I spent alone with my cat... and when I say alone, I mean without a material being, for my cat is a mystical companion, a spirit.

I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be redone.

To know oneself means, among other things, to know oneself qua non-sage: that is, not as a sophos, but as a philo-sophos, someone on the way toward wisdom.

We believe people are basically good. We believe everyone has something to contribute. We encourage you to treat others the way that you want to be treated.

My name is more important than myself.

He who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

I have lived long enough to know what I did not at one time believe--that no society can be upheld in happiness and honor without the sentiment of religion.

Speed is a part of me. I think I was born with that, and nowadays a fast player, I need a fast car, too.

White does not exist in nature.

The more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity.

When you don't know what to expect, prepare for the unexpected.

Happiness seems made to be shared.

The same wind that extinguishes a light can set a brazier on fire.

The painter's only solid ground is the palette and colors, but as soon as the colors achieve an illusion, they are no longer judged.

Prehistoric art came to move me much more than Greek art. Greek art has beautiful women and handsome men, but I don't care.

I think if you've been given something in life you have a moral duty to give things back.

A fight is 10% physical and 90% mental.

I always liked paintings to be walls rather than windows. When we see a painting on a wall, it's a window, so I often put my paintings in the middle of the space to make a wall.

Yves Saint Laurent hated fashion. He loved style.

I like the cinema of people like Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton. I am not keen on trying to reproduce reality - for that you should do documentaries.

Universal suffrage is counter-revolution.

Before I arrived here [ Borussia Dortmund], a lot of people were questioning about whether I could ever play as a striker, that I was a guy who could only run down the wing quickly.

Chanel liberated women: Saint Laurent gave them power.

The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands.

It is by no means necessary to understand things to speak confidently about them.

Faith has need of the whole truth.

One is often guilty by being too just.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

No nations are more warlike than those which profess Christianity.

I have a name, I have to take advantage of it.

What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes first? The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.

I willingly allow that money does not guarantee happiness; but it must also be allowed that it makes happiness a great deal easier to achieve.

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

The human person is the sum total of a 15 billion year chain of unbroken evolution now thinking about itself

I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing.