Fonciere Quotes & Sayings

steamships insult the dignity of distance, — Alexander McCall Smith

It'll be all right, Clay. Really." "So you say, but you have a persecution complex and delusions of grandeur." "That's true," Tom said, "but they're balanced out by poor self-image and ego menstruation at roughly six week intervals ... — Stephen King

People forget your goodness; teach thing something so they can always remember. — M.F. Moonzajer

( ... )the question of the Jews has come to the fore, but like other questions which lend themselves to prejudice, efforts will be made to hush it up as impolitic for open discussion. If, however, experience has taught us anything it is that questions thus suppressed will sooner or later break out in undesirable and unprofitable forms. — Henry Ford

I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time. — Stephen Malkmus

Life is a challenge. Realize that and work, every day, to rise up and meet it. — Denise Austin

Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion. — Robert Macfarlane

Then the animals began to sing. First the crocodiles.
But crocodiles can't sing, I objected at this point every evening.
Sure they can, answers my father very quietly. Crocodiles sing, if only you let them. You just have to be quiet to hear them. — Jan-Philipp Sendker