Gaullism Quotes & Sayings

A fact is a proposition of which the verification by an appeal to the primary sources of our knowledge or to experience is directand simple. A theory, on the other hand, if true, has all the characteristics of a fact except that its verification is possible only by indirect, remote, and difficult means. — Chauncey Wright

She was too good for a monster. — Stephenie Meyer

The characters that populate my books are global nomads in their own right, keeping multiple homes around the world and constantly jet-setting to new places. — Kevin Kwan

It's an odd thing when your children start telling you what to do." "I — Lisa Wingate

Political scientists have often described Gaullism as a sort of Bonapartism. I myself have occasionally compared Sarkozy to Napoleon Bonaparte. — Max Gallo

Software is now so complex - requiring so many gazillions of tiny files all over your computer - that most consumers don't want to bother to know what's really going on. — Clive Thompson

Everything within takes place after Jack died and before my mom and I drowned in a burning ferry in the cool tannin-tinted Guaviare River, in east-central Colombia, with forty-two locals we hadn't yet met. It was a clear and eyeblue day, that day, as was the first day of this story, a few years ago in January, on Chicago's North Side, in the opulent shadow of Wrigley and with the wind coming low and searching off the jagged half-frozen lake. — Dave Eggers

If car manufacturers made cars according to spec the same way software vendors make software according to spec, all five wheels would be of widely differing sizes, it would take one person to steer and another to work the pedals and yet another to operate the user-friendly menu-driven dashboard, and if it would not drive straight ahead without a lot of effort, civil engineers would respond by building spiraling roads around each city. — Erik Naggum

Project Runway, chocolate and margaritas and suddenly all is right with the world — Sarah Pekkanen

That's the problem with life. It rarely gives you neat decisions wrapped up in shiny paper with a bow on top. Most of the important decisions in life are messy. — Debbie Viguie

I just wish he didn't have the power to get to me." "I know, but you're a human being Hunter, and you have feelings. What would be weak is if you didn't. — Melissa Brayden

Not only does he reduce my best friend's emotional state to something akin to an annoying rash, he also plants a new seed in my already overcrowded brain — Sarah Ockler

You know why conductors live so long? Because we perspire so much. — John Barbirolli

I've never seen myself as an artist. So when that happened it was like a whole other crazy thing. — Pharrell Williams

The newspaper is a lecture. The Web is a conversation. — James Lileks