French Polishing Quotes & Sayings

A brick could create a clear winner in a fight if instead of fighting pillows against blankets, you fought bricks against blankets. — Amy Summers

So much American science fiction is parochial
not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less like ours, and with the same ideals, the same notions of how to do things, just bigger and flashier technology. Well, you know darn well it doesn't work that way ... — Poul Anderson

I am not going to let Athens affect the rest of my life. — Paula Radcliffe

If my novel gets any attention in Bulgaria, it will be as a scandal: a book about a teacher at a famous school and his relationship with a prostitute. I doubt very much it will be evaluated on its merits as literature. If Bulgarian were the book's only language, that would be painful and limiting to me as a writer. Since my book also exists in English - where it isn't scandalous at all - I feel comfortable with the possibility of scandal. — Garth Greenwell

Crude men who feel themselves insulted tend to assess the degree of insult as high as possible, and talk about the offense in greatly exaggerated language, only so they can revel to their heart's content in the aroused feelings of hatred and revenge. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It all boils down to this: A person has only two options in life, to do something or to do nothing. — Rodman Philbrick

Interestingly, simple and ordinary experiences often provide the most important learning opportunities we ever have. — David A. Bednar

There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, - in God's good time — Jules Verne

The reason why people fail to achieve their dreams is because they stop pursuing them. — Paulo Coelho

If you don't practice you don't deserve to win. — Andre Agassi

I was sick all the time, one exotic illness after another, which lasted throughout my twenties. My worst decade. But from the day the first book was accepted, I never got sick again. Writing changed my life. — Judy Blume

You wouldn't trust me to pick out your costume, would you? I'd probably make you a French maid or something. Come on. — Nora Sakavic