Fausse Nouvelle Quotes & Sayings

The violets whisper from the shade Which their own leaves have made: Men scent our fragrance on the air, Yet take no heed Of humble lessons we would read. — Christina Rossetti

If I have one thing on in a week, I find it very difficult to get back to work that week. I need a lot of dreaming time. — Kate Thompson

My own musical background is based in the blues, and in classical composition. I grew up listening to Muddy Waters, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Beethoven and Bach. — Frederick Lenz

If teaching is reduced to mere data transmission, if there is no sharing or excitement and wonder, if teachers themselves are passive recipients of information and not creators of new ideas, what hope is there for their students? — Paul Lockhart

Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it — Henry David Thoreau

As a police officer it has been my experience that pedophiles are able to operate and stay functional over long periods of time and victimize scores, even hundreds, of children, because no one wants to believe his or her own intuitions about the symptoms in the perpetrator. — James Lee Burke

Society may not need you, strictly speaking, but some sort of use can usually be found. — Ben Fountain

A gentleman holds my hand.
A man pulls my hair.
A soulmate will do both. — Alessandra Torre

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock. — Jules Renard

How I wasted them, those rooms, that freedom from being seen. Rented — Margaret Atwood

I know I've got a death wish. I've never enjoyed my life, I've never liked people. I love the mountains because they are the negation of life, indestructible, inhuman, untouchable, indifferent, as I want to be. — Anna Kavan

But the past is long, and the future is short. — Karen Thompson Walker

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. — George Bernard Shaw