Francis Bonnefoy Quotes & Sayings

I should be sorry if I only entertained them. I wish to make them better. — George Frideric Handel

Like a beleaguered castle her mind was husbanding its resources, boarding every window, locking every door, shutting down unnecessary functions. — Susan Kay

Nothing returns, nothing begins anew; it is never the same thing, and yet it seems always the same. For, if the days never return, every moment brings forth new beings whose destiny it will be to create for themselves, in the course of their lives, the same illusions that have companioned and at times illuminated ours. The fabric is eternal; eternal, the embroidery. A universe dies when we die; another is born when a new creature comes to earth with a new sensibility. If, then, it is very true that nothing begins all over again, it is very just to say, too, that everything continues. One may fearlessly advance the latter statement or the former, according to whether one considers the individual or the blending of generations. From this second point of view, everything is coexistent; the same cause produces contradictory, yet logical effects. All the colors and their shades are printed at a single impression, to form the wonderful image we call life. — Remy De Gourmont

Why does everyone keep asking me that? Seriously, did I look like some sort of pyscho assassin? Maybe it was the pink sneakers. Or the heart earrings? — Kiersten White

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order. — Arthur Helps

Why is it, she thought, that people always leave us just before we know them? — Robert Jackson Bennett

Everything associated with weddings cost the same - a fortune. — Lisa Scottoline

God has a lot of things to teach us in Heaven, things we didn't learn in this life. — David Berg

Grownups, as a rule, should always be ready to pay for their own meals - or else ready to graciously accept their date's insistence on paying. The point is, one doesn't sit there batting one's eyelashes, fully expecting someone else to claim the bill. — Lynn Coady

Kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. But all the young girls who have not known man ... , keep alive for yourselves. — Moses

'Superman' was a total accident. The producers of the animated series were having a hard time finding someone to read the character. I was brought in through a connection and, I think, out of desperation. — Tim Daly