Dip Quotes

What I look for is neither reality nor unreality but the subconscious, the instinctive mystery of the human race.

A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

I was performing in this burlesque group, and we would go to dance rehearsals every day. You'd use every part of your body. Even though some of it is slow, it takes a lot of muscle to be able to dip down and come back up.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the boundaries of the subject itself: an experience that we call coincidence, serendipity – the terminology is extensive. My experience has been that in these circular travels what is really significant surrounds a central absence, an absence that, paradoxically, is the text being written or to be written.

Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.

There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.

At the end of your lives you will not be judged by academic successes, the degrees or diplomas earned, the positions held, the material wealth acquired, or power and prestige, but rather on the basis of what you have become as persons and what you are in conduct and character.

There is a fine line between serendipity and stalking.

We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

Many audiences all over the world will answer positively from their own experience that they have seen the face of the invisible through an experience on the stage that transcended their experience in life. They will maintain that Oedipus or Berenice or Hamlet or The Three Sisters performed with beauty and with love fires the spirit and gives them a reminder that daily drabness is not necessarily all.

I've always loved life, and I've never known what's ahead. I love not knowing what might be round the corner. I love serendipity.

ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.

Serendipity is putting a quarter in the gumball machine and having three pieces come rattling out instead of one-all red.

I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.

The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.

Samoa culture demonstrates how much the tragic or the easy solution of the Oedipus situation depends upon the inter-relationship between parents and children, and is not created out of whole cloth by the young child's biological impulses.

The very comprehensibility of the world points to an intelligence behind the world. Indeed, science would be impossible if our intelligence were not adapted to the intelligibility of the world. The match between our intelligence and the intelligibility of the world is no accident. Nor can it properly be attributed to natural selection, which places a premium on survival and reproduction and has no stake in truth or conscious thought. Indeed, meat-puppet robots are just fine as the output of a Darwinian evolutionary process.

In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.

If the North Korean side shows no sincerity in solving the nuclear weapon, abduction and missile issues, then the likelihood of normalization of diplomatic relations is very slim.

Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest thing in the nicest way.

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.

There's a serendipity to real life that the Internet can't duplicate. Do you use the library? For anything? Well, sometimes you end up picking up the book next to the one you were looking for, and it's that book that changes your life.