Becquet Quotes & Sayings

Ancient, vicious, discredited ideas backed with adolescent war mania. It's — Iain M. Banks

It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes, it's a startling revelation. — Tina Brown

It was a lovely afternoon - such an afternoon as only September can produce when summer has stolen back for one more day of dream and glamour. — L.M. Montgomery

If I didn't want you so much," he said in a deadly purr, "I'd let you keep fucking me with your gaze, but you make me impatient. — Jeaniene Frost

Scale is very, very important, like the scale of a person is very important. It's to do with the size of our space, the fact they are big sculptures, they are still human scale. — Anthony Caro

Your voice I know. It had me terrified. When I hear it in dreams, from time to time all my life, it sounds like a taunt - but dreams distort sound, for they send it over many waters. During these hard days, I, a pilgrim, am giving my consideration to this. I trudge along the bottom of the river and the questioning goes on in me. What are we made of but hunger and rage? His heels rise and fall in front of me. How surprised I am to be entangled in the knowledge of some other animal. — Anne Carson

In the distant golden sunset sky, a magnificent rainbow is opening wings to fly. — Debasish Mridha

...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing. — Julia Child

Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Dark came early and stayed full of lights and the shouts of children. — China Mieville

Our Father. Intimating, that we must pray, not only alone and for ourselves, but with and for others; for we are members one of another, and are called into fellowship with each other. — Matthew Henry

Royce hated keeping secrets from Hadrian, and it weighed heavily on his conscience, which was amazing, because he had never known he had one. Royce defined right and wrong by the moment. Right was what was best for him - wrong was everything else. — Michael J. Sullivan

I'm often wary of using the word 'inspiration' to introduce my work
it sounds too much like a sun shower from the heavens, absorbed by a passive individual enjoying an especially receptive moment. While that may be the case on rare occasions, the reality is usually far more prosaic. Staring at a blank piece of paper, I can't think of anything original. I feel utterly uninspired and unreceptive. It's the familiar malaise of 'artist's block' and in such circumstances there is only one thing to do: just start drawing. — Shaun Tan

Be an opener of doors — Ralph Waldo Emerson