Blehm Clayton Quotes & Sayings

Many years afterwards, we attempt to solve puzzles that were not mysteries at the time and we try to decipher half-obliterated letters from a language that is too old and whose alphabet we don't even know. — Patrick Modiano

Mnemosyne, one must admit, has shown herself to be a very careless girl. — Vladimir Nabokov

To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other. — Florence King

God, Lou. Don't you think I want you to have what you want?"
"You're my sister. You're supposed to want those things for me."
"You can't have it both ways, Lou. When things get bad, you can't call me - which I'm glad
about, I am! - you can't do that and then imply I don't give a shit about you."
"That's what I used to think. — Julia Glass

Writing is easy: just stare at the screen of your computer until a tear drops on your keyboard. — Paulo Coelho

The subject of autobiography is always self-definition, but it cannot be self-definition in a void. The memoirist, like the poet and the novelist, must engage with the world, because engagement makes experience, experience makes wisdom, and finally it's the wisdom - or rather the movement towards it - that counts. — Vivian Gornick

A cormorant broke the surface, like an improbable idea tearing the membrane between dreams and life. — Peter Carey

The locus of corporate innovations has been product development. But in times of rapid and unpredictable change, the creation of individual products becomes less important than the creation of a general organizational aptitude for innovation. — John Seely Brown

Iraq will not allow any action on its soil that could harm the U.S. We don't want any action from our soil to target our neighbors. — Ahmed Chalabi