Dominique Perrault Quotes & Sayings

Once in a while a new government initiates a program to put power to better use, but its success or failure never really proves anything. In science, experiments are designed, checked, altered, repeated
but not in politics ... We have no real cumulative knowledge. History tells us nothing. That's the tragedy of a political reformer. — B.F. Skinner

As I get older every year, I'm eating better. As a kid, who can turn down chips and candy? But I'm getting better. — Mike Trout

Have the fearless attitude of a hero and the loving heart of a child. — Soyen Shaku

You find a way to work with people you have more in common with. — Zoe Saldana

I'm always in Malibu, and I'm a big fan of surfing and stuff. I love the beach. Someday I will live on the beach. — Riff Raff

I only feel better because people aren't being so abusive to me about my weight. — Sinead O'Connor

You can tell it any way you want, he said, you can be I or he or she or we or they or you and you won't be lying, though you might be telling two stories at once. — China Mieville

I had always broken the rules. — Lauren Hutton

I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there. — Ernie Harwell

Think of the computer as a spiritual space for thinking. — John Maeda

Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor. — Brittany Daniel

I love you, Maggie May Young. Always and forever. And then my mouth touched hers and I felt my future begin. — A Meredith Walters

Shall I tell her? Shall I be a kind and merciful narrator and take our girl aside? Shall I touch her new, red heart and make her understand that she is no longer one of the tribe of heartless children, nor even the owner of the wild and infant heart of thirteen-year-old girls and boys? Oh, September! Hearts, once you have them locked up in your chest, are a fantastic heap of tender and terrible wonders - but they must be trained. Beatrice could have told her all about it. A heart can learn ever so many tricks, and what sort of beast it becomes depends greatly upon whether it has been taught to sit up or to lie down, to speak or to beg, to roll over or to sound alarm, to guard or to attack, to find or to stay. But the trick most folk are so awfully fond of learning, the absolute second they've got hold of a heart, is to pretend they don't have one at all. It is the very first danger of the hearted. Shall I give fair warning, as neither you nor I was given? — Catherynne M Valente

But also out here in this dreary, difficult war, I think history will record that this may have been one of Americas finest hours, because we took a difficult task and we succeeded. — Richard M. Nixon

He hated hospitals, hated them. The stench of Domestos and death seemed to linger in his nostrils and on his clothes for weeks, as if to remind him of something bad. It was even rare to find a tasty nurse these days. Most of the ones he'd seen this afternoon had been as ugly as sin. — Dougie Brimson