Francophiles Holidays Quotes & Sayings

The only time we can talk about death is while we're alive, not afterwards. — Jose Saramago

We've decided what we are. That's the dream. When the dream fades, it's not that we don't exist. How could we not exist since we never existed? — Frederick Lenz

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little. — Rachel Carson

Charles could feel himself sagging with middle-aged defeat, a loser who lacked the hot-blooded need to wrestle America to the ground and take her milk money, who never had the balls to flip his father's shame into a triumphant empire, who marched obediently towards death and hid from life and always chose the wrong path. No. Not yet. He was still Charles Fucking Wang and he would lead the way out of the wilderness. — Jade Chang

I thought it might be good for morale to look my bank manager in the eye for the first time in ten years, even if the money in my account wasn't mine. I was shown into a waiting-room outside the manager's office, and given a plastic cup of plastic coffee which was far too hot to drink until, in the space of a hundredth of a second, it suddenly became far too cold. I was trying to get rid of it behind a rubber plant when a nine-year-old boy with ginger hair stuck his head out of the door, beckoned me in, and announced himself as Graham Halkerston, Branch Manager. — Hugh Laurie

It's it, it's them it really doesn't matter. The languages are complex, as far I can tell. — Deyth Banger

the prince had the stairway smeared with pitch, and when Cinderella tried to run away, her left slipper got stuck — Marissa Meyer

Are there Martians out there? I haven't got a clue. Is there life out there? I have no idea. — Gordon Strachan

The secret of success is concentrating interest in life, interest in sports and good times, interest in your studies, interest in your fellow students, interest in the small things of nature, insects, birds, flowers, leaves, etc. In other words to be fully awake to everything about you & the more you learn the more you can appreciate & get a full measure of joy & happiness out of life. — LeRoy Pollock

I have no social life. There is no time for one. Once in a while I may go to dinner with a friend but that is it. However I am much happier travelling and being busy competing in both my sports than having time off. — Liz Halliday

Dean Holder? Messy brown hair? Smoldering blue eyes? A temper straight out of Fight Club? — Colleen Hoover

Aid my disillusionment, my friend! — Herman Melville

Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense. — Earl Wilson

Everyone of us who can look back over a longer or shorter life experience will probably say that he might have spared himself many disappointments and painful surprises if he had found the courage and decision to interpret as omens the little mistakes which he made in his intercourse with people, and to consider them as indications of the intentions which were still being kept secret. As — Sigmund Freud