Abdenour Quotes & Sayings

Do you know that an Irishman always respond to a question with another?"
And the Irish guy replies "Who told you that? — Cathy Kelly

I'm always in these situations where I forget to separate what is pitched as an idea to the fact that I'm actually going to have to execute it. — Will Ferrell

Sentimental blackmailing is the melodrama done by heart over our brain. — Upasana Banerjee

Certain girls deserve lots of flowers. You are one of them. — Dan Pearce

The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting. — Confucius

We are living now.
We shall not live long.
No one should tell us we shall live again.
This is our little while.
This is our chance. — Susan Glaspell

What are we, in this boundless and glowing world? — Carlo Rovelli

Immediately on my arrival at the Project I began studying linguistics, because that seemed imperative to me. I was soon amazed to learn that, when it came to the primary, most fundamental concepts in this field - a field supposedly precise, quantified, mathematized - there was absolutely no agreement. Why, the authorities could not come together on so basic and preliminary a question as what exactly morphemes and phonemes were. But when I asked the appropriate people, in all sincerity, how in the world they could accomplish anything, given this state of affairs, my naive question was taken as a sneering insinuation. I — Stanislaw Lem

When one writes "the last apple on the tree," or "the one small peach as pink as dawn," one is beginning to deal with particulars - to develop texture ...
Such texture is vital to all poetry. It is what makes the poem an experience, something much more than mere statement. — Mary Oliver

I'm totally obsessed with Dickens, and 'Great Expectations' was one of the first book's I read when I was still in school in Porthcawl. — Paul Rhys

Yes, sir,' said Jeeves in a low, cold voice, as if he had been bitten in the leg by a personal friend. — P.G. Wodehouse

Shilo, when I was young, I used to call you name. — Neil Diamond

It's an odd job, making decent people laugh. — Moliere

One Night Stand"

Listen, you silk-hearted bastard,
I said in the bar last night,
You wear those dream clothes
Like a swan out of water.
Listen, you wool-feathered bastard,
My name, just for the record, is Leda.
I can remember pretending
That your red silk tie is a real heart
That your raw wool suit is real flesh
That you could float beside me with a swan's touch
Of casual satisfaction.
But not the swan's blood.
Waking tomorrow, I remember only
Somebody's feathers and his wrinkled heart
Draped loosely in my bed. — Jack Spicer