Dagnan Bouveret Quotes & Sayings

Beauty alters the grain of reality. — Donna Tartt

I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates. — Gail Carson Levine

While rising delinquencies and foreclosures will continue to weigh heavily on the housing market this year, it will not cripple the U.S. — Ben Bernanke

My government career is over. — Linda Tripp

Not everything that is legal is reputable. — William F. Buckley Jr.

I dislike Tolkien, another Oxonian Old Norse obsessive, with his war games and made-up language in a world without women. — Sarah Moss

Sounds mean nothing without music. — Jerry Goldsmith

Grilling takes the formality out of entertaining. Everyone wants to get involved. — Bobby Flay

Of income and wealth would not matter very much. — Michael J. Sandel

All that yohoho stuff's for landlubbers, or it would be if we ever used words like landlubber. Do you know the difference between port and starboard? I don't. I've never even drunk starboard. — Terry Pratchett

We begin to say something that cannot be said. When you see on the front page a woman in Iraq who's just seen her husband blown up, you see her there, her mouth wide open, you know the sound coming out of her, a howl of grief and pain
that's the beginning of language.
Trying to express that, it's inexpressible, and poetry is really to say what can't be said. And that's why people turn to it in these moments. They don't know how to say this, [but] part of them feels that maybe a poem will say it. It won't say it, but it'll come closer to saying it than anything else will.
I think there are always two sides, and one of them is the unsayable. The utterly singular. Who you are; who you can never tell anybody. And on the other hand, there is what you can express. How do we know about this thing we talk about? Because we talk about it. We're using words. And the words never say it, but the words are all we have to say it. — W.S. Merwin

The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas, as those of a fool are by his passions. The time of the one is long, because he does not know what to do with it; so is that of the other, because he distinguishes every moment of it with useful or amusing thoughts
or, in other words, because the one is always wishing it away, and the other always enjoying it. — Joseph Addison

Tolling in the silence the minutes of the earth and the hours and the days of it and the years without cease. — Cormac McCarthy

Stillness alone is the potentiality for creativity; movement alone is creativity restricted to a certain aspect of its expression. But the combination of movement and stillness enables you to unleash your creativity in all directions-wherever the power of your attention takes you. — Deepak Chopra