Fouten Quotes & Sayings

It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness, — Thomas Hardy

God is a lonely place without steak. — Charles Bukowski

I hate those e-books. They can not be the future ... they may well be ... I will be dead. — Maurice Sendak

You never know what will happen when you fall from a great height. — Jojo Moyes

To her, it was an article of faith: any woman with talent owes it to herself, and to her gender, to make the most of her potential. — Martin Edwards

It's like our country is being run by a bunch of bad alcoholic dads right now. — Patton Oswalt

She had such unusual eyes. They made me think of the seaside, and so I called her Ocean, and could not have told you why. — Neil Gaiman

Realists are, as a rule, only men in the rut of routine who are incapable of transcending a narrow circle of antiquated notions. — Theodor Herzl

More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives that determine our destiny. — Tony Robbins

I am against any pact with the Nationalists because I am against pacts in principle. — David Steel

Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions. — Paul Cezanne

I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case. — Dennis Farina

Many couples, many people, are not living with real human beings, but with their ghosts. Who has not followed for years the spell of a particular tone of voice, from voice to voice, as the fetishist follows a beautiful foot, scarcely seeing the woman herself? A voice, a mouth, an eye, all stemming from the original fountain of our first desire, directing it, enslaving us, until we choose to unravel the fatal web and free ourselves. — Anais Nin

Dreams, and predictions of astrology ... ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside. — Francis Bacon

She saw none of them in their natural state. She asserts that though there may be women distinguished as writers in England, there are no ladies who have any great conversational and political influence in society, of that kind which, during the old regime, was obtained in France by what they would call their femmes marquantes2, such as Madame de Tencin, Madame de Deffand, Mademoiselle de l'Espinasse. This remark stung me to the quick, for my country and for myself, and raised in me a foolish, vainglorious emulation, an ambition false in its objects, and unsuited to the manners, domestic habits, and public virtue of our country. I — Maria Edgeworth