Quotes & Sayings About De Villiers

The size of the Earth has been known for more than two thousand years, although the number was lost or disputed when the Earth went from being round to being flat again in the Middle Ages (under the prodding of Christian heaven-watchers, the Greek philosophers' [Eratosthenes 276-194 BC] work was erased in Europe and preserved only by Muslim scientists in the Middle East and North Africa). — Marq De Villiers

The trouble with water-and there is trouble with water-is that they're not making any more of it. They're not making any less, mind, but no more either. There is the same amount of water in the planet now as there was in prehistoric times. — Marq De Villiers

Consider this: when you stand at the entry to a steel factory, you can make out through the smoke some men, some metal, the fires. The furnaces roar, the hammers crash; and the metalworkers who forge ingots, weapons, tools, and so on are completely ignorant of the real uses to which their products will be put. The workers can only refer to their products by conventional names. Well, that's where we all stand, all of us! Nobody can see the real character of what he creates because every knife blade may become a dagger, and the use to which an object is put changes both its name and its nature. Only our ignorance shields us from terrible responsibilities. — Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

AB de Villiers is the definition of a Cricketing Genius — Michael Vaughan

I Can't win the World Cup alone — AB De Villiers

I understood when I was just a child that without water, everything dies. I didn't understand until much later that no one "owns" water. It might rise on your property, but it just passes through. You can use it, and abuse it, but it is not yours to own. It is part of the global commons, not "property" but part of our life support system. — Marq De Villiers

Every human occupation has it repertoire of stock phrases, within which every man twists and turn until his death. His vocabulary, which seems so lavish, reduces itself to a hundred routine formulas at most, which he repeats over and over. — Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

The Android, as we've said, is only the first hours of Love, immobilized, the hour of the ideal made eternal prisoner — Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

Over 1 billion people have no access to clean drinking water, and more than 2.9 billion have no access to sanitation services. The reality is that a child dies every eight seconds from drinking contaminated water, and the sanitation trend is getting sharply worse, mostly because of the worldwide drift of the rural peasantry to urban slums. — Marq De Villiers

Great images have both a history and a prehistory; they are always a blend of memory and legend, with the result that we never experience an image directly. Indeed, every great image has an unfathomable oneiric depth to which the personal past adds special color. Consequently it is not until late in life that we really revere an image, when we discover that its roots plunge well beyond the history that is fixed in our memories. In the realm of absolute imagination, we remain young late in life. But we must lose our earthly Paradise in order to actually live in it, to experience it in the reality of its images, in the absolute sublimation that transcends all passion. A poet meditating upon the life of a great poet, that is Victor-Emile Michelet meditating upon the life of Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, wrote: "Alas! we have to grow old to conquer youth, to free it from its fetters and live according to its original impulse. — Gaston Bachelard

The Earth, dost thou say? What has the Earth ever realized, that drop of frozen mud, whose Time is only a lie in the Heavens? — Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

One of the signs of the imminent Apocalypse is the "bitterness of all waters," and anyone traveling through eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and its satellites-everywhere that the command economy operated, with its callous disregard for anything but narrow-focused abstract principle-could be forgiven for thinking that the Apocalypse was no longer imminent but in full cry. There's hardly a river, stream, or brook that isn't contaminated with the runoff from human misuse, whether industrial effluents, agricultural pesticides and herbicides, or worse. — Marq De Villiers

There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse. — Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

And in any case ... there are no more supernatural noises nowadays ... — Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

If everything works out for me & if it's my special day I'll try to break AB de Villiers record for the fastest hundred. — Shahid Afridi

Dead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too distant ever to be recaptured! ... What sort of arrows would be able to transfix such birds? — Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

I really hate it when I can't score runs from a ball. — AB De Villiers

Nothing could assuage the secular grief that was your heritage. — Aldous Huxley

AB de Villiers reminds me of my young days, What a Player! — Chris Gayle

Within this new work of art a creature from beyond the reach of Humanity has insinuated herself and now lurks there at the heart of the mystery, a power unimagined before our time. — Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

I don't know how I'm gonna pick up a bat again. I just need to be away for a bit and play with my dogs. — AB De Villiers

Thoughts and feelings change sometimes, as one crosses the frontiers. — Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

It had seemed entirely sensible at the time. A simple way to test the truth of her claim that she had lain with de Villiers. To show her that lying to him was useless. To make a point.
Instead, he had ignited a desire that burned him like none he had ever felt before.
He had expected Lady Laurien d'Amboise to be a timid little convent mouse. Quiet and passive and pliant. Easily manageable. Instead she was outspoken and strong-willed...and stunning in a way he could not even describe.
An innocent beauty caught up in a deadly game that was none of her making....
Malcolm rose to leave, chuckling.
"And what is there to laugh about?"
Darach gave his jovial friend a dour look.
Malcolm stopped just long enough to do his best imitation of Darach. "'Simple. Kidnap one French lass, hold her for a fortnight, and return her to de Villiers after he meets our demands. Perfectly simple. — Shelly Thacker

I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed. — Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

Per capita availability of good, potable water is diminishing in all developed and developing countries. — Marq De Villiers

All over East Africa-indeed, all over Africa-it is normal for people to walk a kilometer or two or six for water. In more arid areas, people walk even greater distances, and sometimes all they find at the end is a pond slimy with overuse. More than 90 percent of Africans still dig for their water, and waterborne diseases such as typhoid, dysentery, bilharzia, and cholera are common. The bodies of many Africans are a stew of parasites. In some areas the wells are so far below the earth's surface that chains of people are required to pass up the water. — Marq De Villiers

My own self-consciousness cries out to me coldly: how does one love zero? — Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

No matter how hot the fire burns, a Protea always survives — AB De Villiers

Nature was quick to pass the sponge of her deluges over these awkward sketches (dinosaurs), these first nightmares of Life. — Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

If our Gods and our hopes are nothing but scientific phenomena, then let us admit it must be said that our love is scientific as well. — Auguste De Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

I have come with this message: since our gods and our aspirations are no longer anything but scientific, why shouldn't our loves be so too? — Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

Live? Our servants will do that for us.. — Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

Brunettes are full of electricity. — Villiers De L'Isle-Adam