Annezin Quotes & Sayings

I showed everyone the medal and they said, 'Ooh, I can't believe how heavy it is,' Sometimes they were more interested in the medal than in me. I was like, 'Hey, what about me?' — Sarah Hughes

The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants. — Arthur Honegger

Go out and do your thing knowing that rejection and failure is an inevitable and integral part of the process to achieving your dreams. — Miya Yamanouchi

His pain is over. It's better as it is!' Mrs. Tugby tried to comfort her with kindness. Mr. Tugby tried philosophy. — Charles Dickens

So much time is spent with people superficially. You remember all the fun you had but nothing specific. — Jodi Picoult

Calm down. If I wanted to hurt you, I wouldn't need this knife to do it. — Melissa Cutler

Your family's history does not have to be your future legacy! — Jayce O'Neal

There is plenty of justice on television, but not so much in the real world. Maybe that's why so many of us like television so much. — Charlaine Harris

It's my conceit that perhaps some diseases perceived as diseases that destroy a well-functioning machine actually turn it into a new but still well-functioning machine with a different purpose. The AIDS virus: look at it from its point of view. Very vital, very excited, really having a good time. It's really a triumph if you're a virus. See the movies from the disease's point of view. You can see why they would resist all attempts to destroy them. These are all cerebral games, but they have emotional correlatives as well. — David Cronenberg

The plans differ; the planners are all alike ... — Frederic Bastiat

Lost is the time that you don't spend for love. — Torquato Tasso

The old lady told me that all the girls in the village of Annezin prayed every night for the War to end, and for the English to go away - as soon as their money was spent. And that the clause about the money was always repeated in case God should miss it. — Robert Graves

Before Darwin, our world was very religious. People saw altruism as something given by God for us to be good so that we could go to Paradise. — Isabella Rossellini

A story is not like a road to follow ... it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside is altered by being viewed from these windows. And you, the visitor, the reader, are altered as well by being in this enclosed space, whether it is ample and easy or full of crooked turns, or sparsely or opulently furnished. You can go back again and again, and the house, the story, always contains more than you saw the last time. It also has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you. — Alice Munro

What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive? — Richard Dawkins

Beyond the fact that it is a limitless arena for the full play of human nature, there is no sure accounting for golf's fascination ... Perhaps it is nothing more than the best game man has ever devised. — Herbert Wind