Cournoyer Francois Quotes & Sayings

Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it. — Arsene Houssaye

Tried on daddy's 1979 rookie firesuit a while back. Smelled every bit of 36 years old. — Dale Earnhardt Jr.

I ought to be more hardboiled; I'd like to be. I don't think I have it in me. To write in clipped sentences. To employ gritty metaphor in the introduction of sultry blondes ... I can't do it, so why bother trying? — Jesse Kellerman

Fresh from the rarefied environments of Harvard, the author says he purposefully took journalism jobs in small southern towns so that he could learn the art of conversation with ordinary people. Is this gift for listening and for conversation, it seems, that allowed him to produce textured historical narratives of grand impact. — David Halberstam

There are going to be questions about what major oil companies are doing with all of the resources they're accumulating. They can't escape that. — Pete Domenici