Battement Frappe Quotes & Sayings

On the whole she fares better with the men, if they can work their way past the awkward preliminaries; if they can avoid calling her "little lady," or saying they weren't expecting her to be so feminine, by which they mean short. Though only the most doddering ones do that any more. If she weren't so tiny, though, she'd never get away with it. If she were six feet tall and built like a blockhouse; if she had hips. Then she'd be threatening, then she'd be an Amazon. It's the incongruity that grants her permission. A breath would blow you away, they beam down at her silently. You wish, thinks Tony, smiling up. Many have blown. — Margaret Atwood

I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized. — Jalal Talabani

What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word We. — Ayn Rand

There is nothing softer and weaker than water, and yet there is nothing better for attacking hard and strong things. — Laozi

They say you are not you except in terms of relation to other people. If there weren't any other people there wouldn't be any you because what you do, which is what you are, only has meaning in relation to other people. — Robert Penn Warren

To a terrible place which men's ears may not hear of, nor their eyes see it. — Sophocles

The staying still was the worst part. The waiting and not-knowing and being afraid: That was worse than anything else that might happen. — Ali Benjamin

spite of the tragedy in her childhood and the ever-present press of war, she had mostly considered herself happy. There was almost always something to take delight in, if you were trying. — Laini Taylor

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.' — V.S. Naipaul

It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work. — Edward Gibbon

Just about every Latin American country has sent players to the big leagues, from the Dominican Republic to Costa Rica. — Cheech Marin

Movie stars are supposed to be healthy. They're kept happy and nutritionally together. — Courtney Love

Hey 'Bachelor,' take notes! Trusting one another and sharing a journey to health leads to lasting relationships! — Alison Sweeney