Bapaume 1918 Quotes & Sayings

Let me tell you who I am: I'm a girl from New Jersey who moved to New York and worked in a bar while trying to make a living at what I really wanted to do, which was act. — Piper Perabo

Man isn't a fool for his ignorance, but rather for believing things that are wrong. — Josh Billings

I usually wake up at 7, 7:15, without an alarm. I hate the sound of an alarm. — Pete Hamill

Things aren't always what they seem
You're only seeing part of me
There's more than you could ever know
Behind the scenes. — Francesca Battistelli

I love the idea of couture and its emphasis on creation. There's where I made my name - in design - and there's where I'd like to stay. — Jimmy Choo

Worthwhile success is impossible in a 40-hour week. — Clarence Birdseye

But whatever the form in which love appears, the lesson it teaches us is the same. We can never assimilate, never become, the beloved object. Possession is never complete, it will elude us in the end, and if we persist in our attempts to impose ourselves we will drown like Narcissus in the reflection of our own selves.

Yet if we can liberate ourselves from the desire to make the thing over in accordance with our own ideas, we open up a wonderful world of perception and understanding, and we can grasp dimly the majestic processes of human experience. Why should that come through the contemplation of lives so utterly unrelated to our own? Why love, if we can never possess?... — Molly Izzard