Bistrot La Quotes & Sayings

Excuse me?" I asked. I always say "excuse me" even though I heard perfectly well what the person said. I feel that by saying "excuse me," I'm giving them a chance to realize they're being an asshole, and they can change their attitude for the second attempt. — Jen Mann

Altho that is so, Ireland has always denied and Ireland still denies that the Union was binding upon her either legally or morally. And here on this historic occasion we have assembled to renew our protest and to place it upon record. — John Edward Redmond

All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go. — Sarah Paulson

Sometimes he fantasised that at the end of his life, he would be shown a home movie of all the roads he had not taken, and where they would have led. — Anne Tyler

Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space. — Chuck Palahniuk

The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no. — Lester Bangs

Success is a drink you enjoy on the journey towards happiness. Risk is, you could get drunk! — Amit Chatterjee

My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world. — Zadie Smith

All art is made from anger. — Lawrence Weiner

Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers. — Charles De Gaulle

I wanted it to stop.
I wanted everything to stop: the noise, the fear, the stink, the pain, the sickening ache in my belly. I didn't want to feel anything anymore. I didn't want to do anything. I didn't want to be here. I didn't want to be scared. I didn't want to be brave. I didn't want to be strong or weak or smart or stupid or precious or careless or dead ...
I didn't want to be anything. — Kevin Brooks

He touched the rough crucifix that lay against his chest and whispered to the moving air, "Lord, that she might be safe, she and my children." Then turned his cheek to her reaching hand and touched her throught the veils of time. — Diana Gabaldon

Women are, of course, more intelligent. Have you ever heard of a woman that would lose her head only because a man has pretty legs? — Faina Ranevskaya