Flambeur Mont Quotes & Sayings

To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing. — Vicki Baum

I recall an incident involving the late George Stigler at a conference in Spain in the 1980s. Hearing that I had written a book on reason and natural law, Stigler started to ridicule reason, going so far as to say that there is as much reason in a monkey's antics as in any human act. At that point I asked him whether he was trying to tell me something about how he wrote his books; he gave me a blank stare and stormed out of the room. — Frank Van Dun

And mortal terror in a female was Z's favorite turn-on. He got off on it like most males favored crap from Victoria's Secret. — J.R. Ward

Vice President Biden's surprising declaration of unqualified support for gay marriage seems to have forced President Obama into a public endorsement of a controversial social issue. It is difficult not to suspect that Biden's pronouncement aimed to give the president some political cover. — Robert Dallek

Everybody was willing to give me a job. But I wanted to do something different. I saw myself as an independent person, self-employed. — Paul Rusesabagina

He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small compared to that of the happy mortal who enters this world with a passion for flowers in his soul. — Celia Thaxter

Civilization is the mastery of violence, the triumph, constantly challenged, over the aggressive nature of the primate. For primates we have been and primates we shall remain, however often we learn to find joy in a camellia on moss. This is the very purpose of education. — Muriel Barbery

What a stupid attitude we have in this country to personal stories. — Amanda Burton

Until you take charge of your own life, things don't happen. — Suzanne Braun Levine

We lack - we need - a term for those places where one experiences a 'transition' from a known landscape ... into 'another world': somewhere we feel and think significantly differently. They exist even in familiar landscapes: there when you cross a certain watershed, recline or snowline, or enter rain, storm or mist. Such moments are rites of passage that reconfigure local geographics, leaving known places outlandish or quickened, revealing continents within counties. — Robert Macfarlane

The infinite variety of the human condition precludes arbitrary definition. — Ian McEwan

Hey - the whole freaking world was built from delusional optimism and folly. What makes you so special? We're all just making it up as we go along. No one really knows what they're doing. Anyone who tells you otherwise is talking out of their butt. — A.S. King

National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same. — Umberto Eco

Let the spark in you catch fire and burn into the air, so that it may light up the sky. — Saim .A. Cheeda