Clarimonde Quotes & Sayings

I sold steaks over the phone in Omaha, Nebraska. Marbling, fantastic. That's what makes a great steak; a lot of people don't know. — Adam DeVine

We must solve the problem in health care by curbing out-of-control costs that erode paychecks for working families and push quality coverage out of reach for millions of Americans. — Paul Ryan

The famous courtesan Clarimonde died recently, as the result of an orgy which lasted eight days and eight nights. It was something infernally
magnificent. They revived the abominations of the feasts of Belshazzar and Cleopatra. Great God!
what an age this is in which we live! The guests were served by swarthy slaves speaking an unknown tongue, who to my mind had every appearance of veritable demons; the livery of the meanest among them might have served as a gala-costume for an emperor. There have always been current some very
strange stories concerning this Clarimonde, and all her lovers have come to a miserable or a violent end. It has been said that she was a ghoul, a female vampire; but I believe that she was Beelzebub in person. — Theophile Gautier

The tarot card 'The Tower' seemed a chilling reflection of the events of September 11, 2001. — Neil Peart

All phenomena do not inherently exist because of being dependent-arisings. All phenomena do not inherently exist because of being dependently imputed. — Gautama Buddha

No matter what mistakes we might have made yesterday, today is the day we can retrieve our innocence. — Marianne Williamson

Why kill a wild thing
when you can take it home and tie it down? — Danabelle Gutierrez

It is hard for me to imagine retiring at 65 and spending the next quarter century not working. I expect to be working, doing something productive and fulfilling. — Marco Rubio

It is the special province of music to move the heart. — Johann Sebastian Bach

It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted. — Livy

Jesus thrown everything off balance. — Flannery O'Connor

If the States do not have the right to secede, then they have no rights at all. — Walter E. Williams

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help. — Carter Burwell

If you come at movies with your own sense of morality and not your own sense of aesthetics, I think you're screwed. I think that's not a way to look at movies. — Bret Easton Ellis

My whole life long I have done nothing but interpret my dreams of ultimate masculinity, and draw them. — Tom Of Finland

Yes, I have loved, as no one on earth ever loved, with an insensate and furious love, so violent that I wonder it did not break my heart. — Theophile Gautier