Courbette Girth Quotes & Sayings

The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

When a book is in its final stages, I've just got to be home, looking at it seventeen hours a day, and that's fine. But all that initial creation of the early drafts, I'd just as soon write it on the road in any extreme place. That's sort of ideal. — Pam Houston

You were my last chance' she's said but don't all women say that? - But can it be by 'last chance' she doesn't mean mere marriage but some profoundly sad realization of something in me she really needs to go on living, at least that impression coming across anyway on the force of all the gloom we've shared - — Jack Kerouac

If The Times said it, it was the absolute truth. — Jill Abramson

Although I come from a family who are Muslim - my mother is Egyptian, my father is Palestinian - my mother only puts a veil on her head when she has a bad hair day. — Yasmine Al Masri

I make myself laugh at everything, so that I do not weep. — Pierre Beaumarchais

I remember I would not stand still; I would not stop being perplexed by everything that spontaneously attracted me or caught my attention. I would never cease to look around me and observe myself in relation to nature: either crystal clear skies and sun-melting afternoons, or foggy winter days and weirdly tinted nights. I would never cease to dream and stand by the window, ready to let the diversity of life pass freely through my skin; courageous enough to believe I stood a chance in devouring each shade of sensation. Or perhaps, immensely foolish to plainly - believe at all. — Virginia Woolf

But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so. — Donald Cargill

Our elected leaders treat us as children or consumers - ideally both, monstrous in our appetites, unable to discriminate between our wants and our needs. — Philip Connors

Now to the term 'relativity theory.' I admit that it is unfortunate, and has given occasion to philosophical misunderstandings. — Albert Einstein

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress. — Charles Kettering

I think every child in every country, not just South Africa, every year should go to a national park, and it should be part of their basic curriculum. — Lewis Pugh