Dip Quotes - Page 2

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

When I paint, mysterious things happen. What starts with a void ends with a dialogue.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.

I observe and remain silent.

It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these experiments took place in the framework of systematic pharmaceutical, chemical research. It could better be described as serendipity.

You ever dip your biscuit in your tea and it breaks. I swear now, you never get used to that.

The instant you know what the result will be, you are lost.

My husband, who's the greatest actor in the world, can do anything. Look at what he did in The Critic and Oedipus. In every role he gets-he did this in Richard the Third-there's nothing he can't do, nothing. Just nothing.

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

You always have to be diplomatic with music, with classical, with whatever you do.

I'll show you Obama's birth certificate when you show me Sarah Palin's high school diploma.

Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committing a god-of-the-gaps fallacy (the fallacy of using God as a stop-gap for ignorance). Yet without some restriction on the use of chance, scientists are in danger of committing a logically equivalent fallacy-one we may call the “chance-of-the-gaps fallacy.” Chance, like God, can become a stop-gap for ignorance.

Dip your pen into your arteries and write.

Many people lack the basic equipment to be in a relationship and there's nothing you can do to change it. You can't take a skunk and dip it in perfume and hope it becomes a puppy. Eventually, the perfume will wear off and you'll still have a skunk on your hands.

What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.

The real secret about diplomats is that we're trained to say something, when there is nothing to say, and to say nothing when there is something to say.

Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.

The same ten minutes that magazines urge me to use for sit-ups and triceps dips, I used for sobbing.

You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it.

When a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. When he says perhaps, he means no. When he says no, he is not a diplomat. When a lady says no, she means perhaps. When she says perhaps, she means yes. But when she says yes, she is no lady.

...maximize the serendipity around you.

The basic quality for the diplomat is not intelligence but loyalty.

There's some mysterious process at work here, which I don't even want to understand.

Go to parties. You can't even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues.