Bouffe Quotes & Sayings

We pass between sea and sky with unaccountable, humiliating ease, as if there were no firmament between the firmaments, no above or below, here or there, now or then, with only the feeble conventions of language, our contrived principles, and our love of one another's light to keep our own light from going out; abandon any one of them, and we dissolve in darkness like salt in water. — Russell Banks

I'd like to focus on my life on creating new medicines for people who are suffering from rare disease. — Martin Shkreli

Words, to me, are the same as an instrument is to a musician. I never know where this typewriter is going to take me until I begin. I never know what I'm feeling until I read over what I have written. — Tessa Emily Hall

It is vain for painters ... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work. — Joshua Reynolds

It would be a bit awkward to be with a girlfriend who didn't love what you do. — Ashton Irwin

There is a green hill far away, Without a city wall, Where the dear Lord was crucified, Who died to save us all. — Cecil Frances Alexander

Norway ... looked to Roosevelt as funny a kingdom as was ever imagined outside of opera bouffe ... It is much as if Vermont should offhand try the experiment of having a king. — Edmund Morris