Henry Dunant Famous Quotes & Sayings

When a girl cries, few things are more worthless than a boy. — Alexandra Bracken

Both law and comedy are heavily focused on thought and viewing all angles. To write a good joke, you have to look at a premise every way possible. And with a good legal argument, you have to see all sides to get the best line of argument for your client. Law school made me a better comic, and comedy has made me a better public speaker. — Troy Walker

It started off as a playful fantasy we talked about. Then the fantasy became a plan, the way fantasies sometimes do, and the plan became a future. It didn't hit us as the climax of anything, just the celebration of something that had already happened to us. I guess we hoped the celebration would help us understand what had happened. — Rob Sheffield

Even the most horribl e of nightmares is laced with the promise of dawn. — Richard Paul Evans

I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool of me. — Marcel Proust

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production. — Joseph Brodsky

Now I have something to tell you," her brother said. "Every time I've had to take part in anything with other people, something of genuine social concern, I've been like a man who steps outside the theater before the final act for a breath of fresh air, sees the great dark void with all those stars, and walks away, abandoning hat, coat and play. — Robert Musil

Writing a novel is like traveling the universe on foot. — Dennis R. Miller