Adoucir Quotes & Sayings

No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art. — Halldor Laxness

There's probably one more story about Bosnia that I'd like to do, because I spent a fair amount of time on the Serb side of the lines, which isn't apparent in the other books. — Joe Sacco

Put down the book." She wanted to look away, as he seemed distracted from holding the trousers in place, but she couldn't take her eyes off the book. What if he hurt it? What if he followed through with his threat?
"No horse jokes,"he said.
"My lord, I apologize for the horse joke. If you put down the book - unharmed! - I will give you a carrot. — Cynthia Hand

I quite like the transitions of being an actor, because you get to explore these little pockets of life. So if you're playing a builder you get to know about building, if you're playing a scientist or a physician or something you get to know about physics. And similarly with this world I like exploring their culture, that very sort of upper middle class, addictive ... that's part of the reason I love it. — Matt Smith

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, 'cause I'm very smart. — Lady Gaga

The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost. — Seamus Heaney

Love is sweet but its journey can be very bitter — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I put food on the table
and roof overhead.
But I'd trade it all tomorrow
for the highway instead. — Tom Waits

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Painting is ... a correspondence between what you are and what you see. It's a moment when something is holding together in such a way that it is a universe in itself ... Within this is a test and also a judgment upon yourself, your capabilities, your promises, and the part that you play in the world. And nobody else can test that for you. Certainly not the Museum of Modern Art. — Milton Resnick

The language of art is celestial in origin and can only be understood by the chosen. — El Greco

Earning a lot of money is not the key to prosperity. How you handle it is. — Dave Ramsey

If you can't think because you can't chew, try a banana. — Lee Kuan Yew

By "the Permanent Things" [T. S. Eliot] meant those elements in the human condition that give us our nature, without which we are as the beasts that perish. They work upon us all in the sense that both they and we are bound up in that continuity of belief and institution called the great mysterious incorporation of the human race. — Russell Kirk