Gaumont Parnasse Quotes & Sayings

A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to snow again. He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight. The time had come for him to set out on his journey westward. Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead. — James Joyce

Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to help them with those feelings. — Mattie Stepanek

I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution. — Stephen Hawking

... I don't wish to meet people. They disgust me. Increasingly so. But I must have milk. — Erlend Loe

Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it's forced. — Bob Black

You going to be a scientist when you grow up? That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got. — Philip Pullman

The problem is people want help, but when help arrives you want to tell the help how to help you. Learn to RECEIVE help. — Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

I wrote a book called 'Doll Bones', which was another middle-grade book, and when I was writing it, I needed a place in the U.S. that made bone china. And there are only two places in the U.S. that make bone china. They made it by grinding down actual cow bones. It was a plot point. It was a creepy doll book. — Holly Black

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. — Alice James