Fleurette Quotes & Sayings

People were kind and friendly and amusing, but they thought that companionship and conversation were synonymous, and some of them had voices that jarred in your head. There was a lot to be said for dogs. They understood without telling you so, and they were always pleasing to look at, awake or asleep, like Bingo. He slept now, with little whistling snores, in his basket at the side of the fire, his stubby legs and one whiskery eyebrow twitching to the fitful tempo of his dreams. — Monica Dickens

I write what I like — Steve Biko

It isn't done easily," he said with a half smile. "I'm just not one to complain overmuch. — Lynn Kurland

Who knows, maybe I am simply a talented architect? — Moshe Safdie

Ian McEwan is a very good writer; the first half of Atonement alone would ensure him a lasting place in English letters. — John Banville

Democracy is the art of thinking independently together. — Alexander Meiklejohn

Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever we're stuck with. — Marilyn Vos Savant

Individually there were things we lacked, but together we were perfect. — Megan Hart

Finding dominant strategies is considerably easier than finding the Holy Grail. (...) It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. In other words, love is a dominant strategy. — Avinash K. Dixit

His jealousy, like an octopus which throws out a first, then a second, and finally a third tentacle, fastened itself irremovably first to that moment, five o'clock in the afternoon, then to another, then to another again. But Swann was incapable of inventing his sufferings. They were only the memory, the perpetuation of a suffering that had come to him from without. — Marcel Proust