Conciergerie Facts Quotes & Sayings

Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go. — Cesare Pavese

If I were ever interested in taking a mate, you would be her, Zandy. That's what makes you dangerous because you make me consider it. — Laurann Dohner

But the happiness you hoped to win for me will never be mine. — Dodie Smith

Fucking is an art. The mere fact of introducing the cock in the cunt and moving it in and out until the ejaculation of spunk is not art. True, it is fucking, but the difference between that way of doing it and the way it should be done, is like the difference between a child's first drawing and a picture by the world's greatest painter. — Anais Nin

Here is a writer possessing the greatest talent: that of fully inhabiting the lives of others. Spargo conjures up these two as no one has done before. Scott and Zelda become, in Spargo's remarkable novel, not people of history but of literature, and reminders of what we fight for, what we fail to win, and the beauty that abides between. A marvel of a book. — Andrew Sean Greer

Creativity is the firing of my soul. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I used anything, various materials; this is wood, and this is mixed up clay, wedged together, clay with glazes and stuff like that. — Joe Fafard

With vision only, you get no follow-through. With enforcers only, the vision is realized but leaves a lot of wreckage. — Colin Powell

Obama is now fighting for his life. He's fighting for a federal government. I believe in a federal government. I hope it sticks around. We had the American Revolution. There was this whole tension between the federalists and the anti-federalists. Then we had the Civil War. We had Lincoln fighting for it. And the secessionists were there. And we have the same issue today. — Oliver Stone

Neither clock nor weather-glass is ever right; but we believe in both, devoutly. — Charles Dickens

The liar is no whit better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth. — Theodore Roosevelt

January has only one thing to be said for it: it is followed by February. Nothing so well becomes its passing. — Katharine Tynan

I analyzed you, though you did not adore me. — Oscar Wilde