Des Gardes Robe Quotes & Sayings

The body is like the wife to the spirit. The two must cohabit to create new forms, but their pleasures rarely coincide. — Subhash Kak

So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live. — Alan Watts

She hadn't learned to look for the difference yet between what one did and who one was. Hadn't even known there was a difference. — Julia Pierpont

I'm too old to figure out the rights and wrongs of everything. — Barbara Else

When my guitar was growling, playing surf beat, you could hear it; you could feel it. — Dick Dale

There is one thing we know about meaning, that meaning consists in attachment to something bigger than you are. The larger the thing that you can credibly attach yourself to, the more meaning you get out of life. — Joel Garreau

Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere. — Diane Cilento

...the vague thought passed through my mind that all of us, probably, would die like that: unexpectedly, in the middle of something we wanted to do, instead of at the end of our endeavors, as we always fondly believe. — Kenneth Roberts

Way back in October 2007, I had urged thousands of Australians to vote for Kevin Rudd and Peter Garrett's Labor Party. Why? Because they promised to get tough on illegal Japanese whaling. — Paul Watson

A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liberally educated dog does, in a general way, prefer a woman to a man. — Francis Thompson

His sumptuous tents, and those of his satraps, afforded an immense booty to the conqueror; and an incident is mentioned which proves the rustic but martial ignorance of the legions in the elegant superfluities of life. A bag of shining leather, filled with pearls, fell into the hands of a private soldier; he carefully preserved the bag, but he threw away its contents, judging that whatever was of no use could not possibly be of any value. — Edward Gibbon

I thought of the scene while writing scenes with Rebecca [Hall] and wrote it like an opening montage of showing where someone works. If you see a film about a car mechanic, you'd show the place they work and what they do. So, that's what I set out to do with Rebecca's character. I thought it probably wouldn't even make it into film but I ended up liking it. — Nicole Holofcener