Gourdeaux Quotes & Sayings

France has become the second-largest consumer of pizza per person, per pound, in the world, behind the United States and ahead of Italy. — Elaine Sciolino

I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think. — Naveen Andrews

There is no higher soul than that of man and it is from man that the stone of eternal life must be drawn. Therefore the book that contains the knowledge of that stone must be wrapped in human flesh. No matter how sick a man might be, no matter what his deformities, his healing lies within these pages. [Sylvian] — Karen Maitland

Our initial assessment is that they will all die. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

Recreational talking is, along with private singing, one of our saddest recent losses. Like singing, talking has become a job for trained professionals, who are paid considerable sums of money to do it on television and radio while we sit silently listening or, if we're truly lonely and determined, call the station and sit holding the phone waiting for a chance to contribute our two cents' worth. — Barbara Holland

In the Fragments, sensations are more profound and richly clarified through deliberate and explicit pattern; emotions are given a sequence and development such as the exigencies of practical life rarely permit. — Alton Tobey

Hereditary cancer syndromes are characterized by substantial but not absolute risks of specific cancers. — Katherine Schneider

There is no normality in life. — Helena Bonham Carter

I immediately noticed there were far more male characters than female characters in the programs, even now, in the 21st century. — Geena Davis

All statistics consist of our attempts to represent statistically what is in motion; and in the process things assume a weight in our mind which they have not in reality. For this reason a man, who by his profession is concerned with any particular aspect of life, is apt to magnify its proportions; in laying undue stress upon facts he loses his hold upon truth. A detective may have the opportunity of studying crimes in detail, but he loses his sense of their relative places in the whole social economy. When science collects facts to illustrate the struggle for existence that is going on in the kingdom of life, it raises a picture in our minds of "nature red in tooth and claw." But in these mental pictures we give a fixity to colours and forms which are really evanescent. — Rabindranath Tagore