Clairsem E Quotes & Sayings

He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history
the very things, he says, that are most natural to him. — Don DeLillo

Your sort, always combining flavors! Sea urchins have to taste also like lemon, sugar also like chocolate, love also like paradise! — Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

The right way to collaborate, I think, is to divide projects into sharply defined modules, each with a definite owner, — Paul Graham

The natural environment sustains the life of all beings universally. — Dalai Lama

Bhutan is the land of la. The monosyllabic word serves as all-purpose affirmation, honorific, and verbal tic. Mostly, it is a softener, appended to almost everything. La means "sir" but also "ya know." I like the way it sounds and, during my weeks in Bhutan, use it myself, but always self-consciously, never finding the right rhythm. — Eric Weiner

Grinding the faces of the poor seems to be the policy of the Greens. — Jerry Pournelle

College students don't go to bed until at least three. It's a college requirement. You sign a contract when you're accepted. — Jessica Park

God's Word is the tool the Holy Spirit uses to change our worldly thinking to heavenly thinking. — Elizabeth George

Reiko had not kept a diary and was now denied the pleasure of assiduously rereading her record of the happiness of the past few months and consigning each page to the fire as she did so.
- Death in Midsummer and Other Stories — Yukio Mishima

An SJH, in ballistics shorthand. It was a brutally efficient piece of ordnance. Not exactly a dum-dum, named after Dum-Dum, India, where a British army officer had invented a bullet that mushroomed out on impact and acted as a miniature wrecking ball inside the body. Innovation wasn't always good for you. The .45 SJH had blown right through the front of Cassie Decker's skull and ended up lodged deep in her brain. It had been dug out of her during the autopsy and the slug preserved as evidence in her murder investigation. It had retained enough of its shape — David Baldacci

I really love comedy. I love making people laugh. But other things also appeal to me. — Jennifer Aniston

Some people are scared to tell the truth, but I'm going to tell you the Good, the bad, the ugly," it's like, "Let's go there. Let's talk about it." — LeCrae

People talk about the golden age of Hollywood because of how women were lit then. You could be Joan Crawford and Bette Davis and work well into your 50s, because you were lit and made into a goddess. Now, with everything being sort of gritty, women have this sense of their use-by date. — Cate Blanchett

I love or hate things straight away. I like to go directly to action to see the result. I think I must be difficult, but at the same time, it's not for me to say. — Philippe Petit

I started writing serious books so late because I knew I'd be accused of riding on my father's coattails. — Thomas Steinbeck