Bertussi Construction Quotes & Sayings

The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after tow minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless. — Tahir Shah

I grew up with music hall and revue and was used to filling in the little gaps here and there to get bigger audience reaction. — Ron Moody

I only became a novelist because I thought I had missed my chance to become a historian. — Hilary Mantel

There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts. — Albert Camus

I found out that if you made people laugh, they like you. Most people got to like me because I made them laugh. When they didn't, I hit them. — Buddy Hackett

There was no place more solitary than a dark room, with its murky light and fetid closeness. — Amitav Ghosh

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. — Aesop

If I had grown up in that house I couldn't have loved it more, couldn't have been more familiar with the creak of the swing, or the pattern of the clematis vines on the trellis, or the velvety swell of land as it faded to gray on the horizon ... The very colors of the place had seeped into my blood. — Donna Tartt

There is no rigorous and effective deconstruction without the faithful memory of philosophies and literatures, without the respectful and competent reading of texts of the past, as well as singular works of our own time. Deconstruction is also a certain thinking about tradition and context. Mark Taylor evokes this with great clarity in the course of a remarkable introduction. He reconstitutes a set of premises without which no deconstruction could have seen the light of day. — Jacques Derrida

Some people do want to stand on the rooftop and scream out their story. Others are cowering in the corner, or sitting with a blank face in class, and not knowing how to tell their story. — Lauren Myracle

The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous. — Grove Karl Gilbert

Having no talent is no longer enough. — Gore Vidal