Bouthillier Rioux Quotes & Sayings

Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To our infirmity. — William Wordsworth

All addictions have one thing in common - they numb you out to what is happening in the moment. — Barbara De Angelis

I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet. — Carolina Herrera

few years after Ball was herded south, a slave trader marched a coffle past the US Capitol just as a gaggle of congressmen took a cigar break on the front steps. One of the captive men raised his manacles and mockingly sang "Hail Columbia," a popular patriotic song. — Edward E. Baptist

You always romanticize the past as soon as the future begins to frighten you. — Rick Remender

I'll just ask now: What is it about my persona that draws every insane, power-hungry nutcase to me like a magnet? — James Patterson

A lot of people like to live on laurels that happened 20 or 30 years ago, but it's nice to get awards. It's nice to be labeled and things like that, but I'm not sure everybody qualifies. — Tim Conway

I spent nine hard, exasperating, concentrated months on the first chapter of Liars' Club alone, which was essentially time developing that voice - a watchmaker's minuscule efforts, noodling with syntax and diction. Were I to add on the time I spent trying to recount that book's events in poetry and a novel, I could argue that concocting that mode of speech actually occupied some thirteen years (seventeen, if you count the requisite years in therapy getting the nerve up). What was I doing during those nine months? Mostly I just shoved words around the page. I'd get up at four or five when my son was asleep, then work. I'd try telling something one way, then another. If a paragraph seemed half decent, I'd cut it out and tape it to the wall. — Mary Karr

What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger. — Alcuin

Writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

We are the strongest filter we can place before the lens. We point the lens both outward and inward. — John Paul Caponigro

[X-ray's] accidental discovery in the late 1800s fits seamlessly into modernity's fascination with, and belief in, the power of technological transparency: the desire to domesticate time (cinema), to preserve and capture the surface of the fleeting (photography), to see inside (x-ray). — Walead Beshty