Gallica Quotes & Sayings

Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses. — Mahatma Gandhi

Ballet is merely a new rationalization of society's instinctive movement towards self-destruction. A dance of death for the Gadarene swine. — Eric Ambler

Lovers offered only what they offered and nothing more, and what they offered came with provisos: believe what you want and don't look carefully at what isn't acceptable to you. — Rachel Kushner

Quite often I reflect on the big house in Hollywood, on 'Midnight Confessions and on Ramon Novarro and on the fact that Roman Polanski and I are godparents to the same child, but writing has not yet helped me to see what it means. — Joan Didion

Hope, that risky, illustrious thing. It should have gone extinct by now, but we keep it alive. — Lauren DeStefano

I was lucky - the first eight productions I auditioned for, I got cast. — Emily Browning

So inveterate is their appetite for Heaven that our best method, at this stage, of attaching them to earth is to make them believe that earth can be turned into Heaven at some future date by politics or eugenics or 'science' or psychology, or what not. Real — C.S. Lewis

Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost! — Alexander Pope

He was weak on philosophy and an excellent driver, but his driving was a lot more dangerous than his philosophy. — Bertolt Brecht

I have an amazing metabolism. I'm sure that'll be gone one day. But I like to exercise, too, so I don't think I'll ever get really fat. — Aziz Ansari

I love dressing up. I have people helping me with it. I am not going to take credit for that. I have a stylist, make-up and hair stylist. — Sonam Kapoor

Somebody approached me about writing a biography on me, I told them they were too late. — Zach Braff

Forgive your enemies but don't forget what they did to you — Bangambiki Habyarimana

You can't sing about love unless you know about it. — Billy Eckstine