Besancon University Quotes & Sayings

I was watching 'Up In The Air' and I thought, 'Jesus, who's the old gray-haired guy?' And it was me. I never wear makeup for movies and now it's starting to show. — George Clooney

All our lives are miraculous if only we are willing to view them that way. The world keeps on pulsing new amazements, providing a constant series of epiphanies, illuminations, peak experiences. If, out of inattention, cynicism or a moribund view of the world, we don't respond to the wondrous, then we get what we expect: a confirmation that life is unsurprising. — Pierre Delattre

Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march. — J.K. Rowling

An army of the people is invincible! — Mao Zedong

Moreover, people have become accustomed to reading to escape as opposed to reading to think. — Leigh M. Lane

Yet the scene around me had its influence, and a guilty feeling possessed me as I realized that of all present in that place of peace and clean content, I was the only profane thing, an ogre lurking to destroy. The half-grown ferns and evergreen sedge grasses through which the early breeze whispered, would, if I had my way, soon be smeared with the blood of some animal, who was viewing, perhaps with feelings akin to my own, the dawning of another day; to be is last. Strange thoughts, maybe, coming from a trapper, one whose trade is to kill;but be it known to you that he who lives much alone within the portals of the temple of Nature learns to think, and deeply, of things which seldom come within the scope of ordinary life. Much Killing brings ine time, no longer triumph, but a revulsion of feeling. — Grey Owl

Pour away despair and rinse the cup. Eat happiness like bread. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

And over one more set of hills, along the sea, the last roses have opened their factories of sweetness and are giving it back to the world. If I had another life I would want to spend it all on some unstinting happiness. — Mary Oliver

He was convinced this was a bribe, a kickback, to some Pentagon big shot, and he wanted proof. But that was a tall order, even to someone as brilliant as your brother. It's a little like understanding algebraic combinatorics if you still don't get long division. — Joseph Finder

I thought rock and roll was an unassailable outlet for some pure and natural expression of rebellion. It used to be one channel you could take without ever havin' to kiss arse, you know? — Keith Richards

In the evenings there's been thunder, a distant bumping and stumbling, like God on a sullen binge. — Margaret Atwood

The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere. — Fernando Pessoa

It is in order that France may find her place in the new Europe that you will respond to my appeal. — Pierre Laval

I'm like a magpie. I use lots of different things to build a character. — Andrew Lincoln