Explication Des Mots Quotes & Sayings

It is remarkable, but on the whole, perhaps, not to be lamented, that the world is so unkind to a new book. Any distinguished traveler who comes to our shores is likely to get more dinners and speeches of welcome than he can well dispose of, but the best books, if noticed at all, meet with coldness and suspicion, or, what is worse, gratuitous, off-hand criticism. — Henry David Thoreau

I like playing smart, savvy, sexy women
because it's so not me! — Amanda Tapping

Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
Then let's be quiet together. — Leonard Cohen

Silence guides the mind... — The Neighbourhood

The average man takes life as a trouble. He is in a chronic state of irritation at the whole performance. He does not learn to differentiate between troubles and difficulties, usually, until some real trouble bowls him over. He fusses about pin-pricks until a mule kicks him. Then he learns the difference. — Herbert Newton Casson

Once we know the number one, we believe that we know the number two, because one plus one equals two. We forget that first we must know the meaning of plus. — Jean-Luc Godard

As a devil's advocate Mr Neville was faultless. And yet, she knew, there was a flaw in his reasoning, just as there was a flaw in his ability to feel. — Anita Brookner

Very often with an American movie, the end is very happy and you just feel good when you go out. When you go to a French movie, it's kind of like, oh!, and you can't go out; you're stuck in your chair. It goes so deeply inside of the heart. — Emmanuelle Beart

I'm very English, and we don't talk about emotions publicly. — Marcus Mumford

It's funny, this thing about happiness. It's a commodity that was imported from America in the Fifties. I see myself simply as living my life ... I feel it's pushing your luck to define how happy you are. — Francesca Annis

To mourn, perhaps, is simply to prolong a posture of astonishment ... — Sara Suleri

Until we have comprehensive financial education, we'll never see the end of our booms and busts. — Robert Kiyosaki