Bonnat Quotes & Sayings

They come in search of new things, but when they leave they are basically the same people they were when they arrived. They climb the mountain to see the castle, and they wind up thinking that the past was better than what we have now. They have blond hair, or dark skin, but basically they're the same as the people who live right here — Paulo Coelho

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable. — Coco Chanel

You surpise me, because people nearly always force you to ask, don't they? — Jean Rhys

My most enjoyable movie going experiences have always been going to a movie theater, sitting there and the lights go down and a film comes on the screen that you don't know everything about, and you don't know every plot turn and every character movement that's going to happen. — Christopher Nolan

History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetites, which shake the public with the same
- "troublous storms that toss
The private state, and render life unsweet."
These vices are the causes of those storms. Religion, morals, laws, prerogatives, privileges, liberties, rights of men, are the pretexts. — Edmund Burke

Everywhere I step, I find only corners," Father whispered. "Slowly, they trap me. — Brandon Sanderson

Bonnat tells me, 'Your painting isn't bad, it is chic, but even so it isn't bad, but your drawing is absolutely atrocious.' So I must gather my courage and start once again ... — Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

The writing process is not just putting down one page after another-it's a lot of writing and then rewriting, restructuring the story, changing the way things come together. — Rebecca Stead

I cried at my son's sports day, for God's
sake. I'm a huge baby — Jamie Redknapp

The work of your heart, the work of taking time, to listen, to help, is also your gift to the whole of the world — Jack Kornfield

Now I know how Joan of Arc felt, As the flames rose to her Roman nose And her Walkman started to melt ... — Steven Morrissey

In that pallid and sullen shadow in which he crawled, whenever he turned his head and endeavoured to raise his eyes, he saw, with mingled rage and terror, forming, massing, and mounting up out of sight above him with horrid escarpments, a kind of frightful accumulation of things, of laws, of prejudices, of men, and of acts, the outlines of which escaped him, the weight of which appalled him, and which was no other than that prodigious pyramid that we call civilization. — Victor Hugo

Until they put that sand and dirt in my face I will not sit in church all day. — Alberta Hunter

It is typically Norwegian to be good — Kjell Magne Bondevik