Conseil Detat Quotes & Sayings

The smell of apple pies didn't quite fill the house, but it was there, a thread under everything else. It was kind of hard to take Christophe seriously when he smelled like baked goods. I wondered if other djampjir smelled like Hostess Twinkies and sniggered to myself. — Lilith Saintcrow

Prudence does not save us, but shows us pictures of our destroyers. — Mason Cooley

You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away) hundreds and hundreds of religions; today he has hundreds and hundreds of religions, and launches not fewer than three new ones every year. I could enlarge on that number and still be within the facts. — Mark Twain

Take your desires for reality! can be understood as the ultimate slogan of power. — Jean Baudrillard

My father taught me that learning is an endless process, and that there is no limit to the amount of knowledge a person can contain. You are never too old to learn something new, or too young to learn too much. — Suzy Kassem

There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another. — Caitlin Kittredge

At thee seaside all is narrow horizontals, the world reduced to a few long straight lines pressed between earth and sky. — John Banville

Real poetry is a party, a wild party, a party where anything might happen. A party from which you may never return home. — Dorothea Lasky

What wonderful minds we have, even though they don't seem to get us anywhere, or make us happy. — Tim Parks