Henri Turenne Quotes & Sayings

I touched an Oscar once. Friend of mine has one, for writing. As soon as I touched it, he said, Now you'll never win one. — Rob Corddry

The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoyin his. — Artemas Ward

Gansey's partying with his mother," Ronan said. He smelled like beer. "And Noah's fucking dead. But Parrish is here. — Maggie Stiefvater

The windfall of great riches can, if mismanaged, make things worse, not better, for the recipients. — Michael Mandelbaum

Even when I was young I wanted to be an actress. — Troian Bellisario

I won't have to miss smoking any more. Nobody smokes where I'm going: It's like a row of restaurants in California. — Clive James

In America, on the ordinate plane of faith versus reason, the x-axis of faith intersects with the y-axis of reason at the zero point of "I don't give a damn what you think". — Sarah Vowell

An effort made with ourselves for the good of others, with the intention of pleasing God alone. — Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes. — Walter Lippmann

It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless. — Donald Miller

Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part. — Mia Wasikowska

Indeterminism does not confer freedom on us: I would feel that my freedom was impaired if I thought that a quantum mechanical trigger in my brain might cause me to leap into the garden and eat a slug — J.J.C. Smart

Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death. — Saul Bellow

And Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book. — Jane Austen

The look of the sky as the day's blue blood runs out of its cheek. — Stephen King