Despotisme Doux Quotes & Sayings

I thanked everyone whose job it ever was to lay hands on the skin of strangers, and I gave general thanks that I was lying facedown in a warm puddle of soap and not a warm puddle of blood in some corner of this incomprehensible city. — Billy Collins

Babe, how can you can be so blind when your eyes are wide open? Even if he wasn't the coolest kid I have ever met, even if I didn't enjoy the hell out of my time reliving my childhood with the little guy, he is part of you. No, he isn't yours and I understand that, but he is part of you, and Beauty, how can I not love that — Harper Sloan

When I was out on the battlements it was cool and I could hardly hear them. I sat there quietly. I don't know how long I sat. Then I turned round and saw the sky. It was red and all my life was in it. — Jean Rhys

We are enemies. I would as soon kill you as have dinner with you. But even enemies can negotiate, can't they, now? — Tom Clancy

Aren't you just a knight in shining armor? ... Wherever do you keep your horse? And who scoops up the crap it leaves behind? — Myra McEntire

The whole size zero debate is disgusting. My sister, who's 13, looks amazing - but she's already worried about her figure. — Billie Piper

Who invented my life? — Bernard Malamud

I know how to run a nationally paced campaign. — Jesse Jackson

Americans ... want leaders who share their values, understand their needs, and respect their intelligence. — Tom Vilsack

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Anyone for a Film Festival?: — Jerome Pitt