Auxquelles Francais Quotes & Sayings

It's funny how heterosexuals have lives and the rest of us have "lifestyles." — Sonia Johnson

Loeanneth, so greedy and bold. She wondered — Kate Morton

You realize how selfish you were to wish that your wife survived you. It was your selfishness that made you deny that your wife had a serious illness. — Kyung-Sook Shin

Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been picked out and given separate names? — Julian Barnes

It's a lot harder to push forward things, like energy policy. There's a big dream out there about wind and solar power. — Zephyr Teachout

An enlightened citizenry is indispensable for the proper functioning of a republic. Self-government is not possible unless the citizens are educated sufficiently to enable them to exercise oversight. It is therefore imperative that the nation see to it that a suitable education be provided for all its citizens. — Thomas Jefferson

As always, my alarm went off too early, yanking me back into a world I wasn't quite prepared to deal with. I looked automatically toward the window as I sat up. Only three bloody crescents marked the spots where bluebirds had managed to slam themselves to death against the glass. — Seanan McGuire

No man can have society upon his own terms. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't like things too overstated in the cut or too perfect. — John Malkovich

Maybe when water yearned for fire / it invented waves / so one day they might become flames — Ibrahim Nasrallah

When they [visitors to his studio:] learn about the six-week daily-strip deadline and the 12-week Sunday-page deadline, a visitor almost never fails to remark: "Gee, you could work real hard, couldn't you, and get several months ahead and then take the time off?"
Being, as I said, a slow learner, it took me until last year to realize what an odd statement that really is. You don't work all of your life to do something so you don't have to do it. — Charles M. Schulz

I didn't have the money to put myself through drama school, so I thought - naively - that if I wrote a play and put it on at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, agents would see me and that would be my ticket to Hollywood. I wrote a musical; an acting coach saw it and put me on his course for free while I wrote for his company. — Neil Jackson

I hang my laundry on the line when I write. — Joni Mitchell

It sounded, I told him, as if he had never learned to balance projecting goals into the future with appreciating and living in the present.
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To the extent that our goal is to "prove" ourselves or ward off the fear of failure, this balance is difficult to achieve. We are too driven. Not joy but anxiety is our motor.
But if our aim is self-expression rather than self-justification, the balance tends to come more naturally. We will still need to think about its daily implementation, but the anxiety of wounded self-esteem will not make the task nearly impossible. — Nathaniel Branden