Heures Supplementaires Quotes & Sayings

In the country, spring is a time of small happenings happening quietly, hyacinth shoots thrusting in a garden, willows burning with a sudden frosty fire of green, lengthening afternoons of long flowing dusk, and midnight rain opening lilac; but in the city there is the fanfare of organ-grinders, and odors, undiluted by winter wind, clog the air; windows long closed go up, and conversation, drifting beyond a room, collides with the jangle of a peddler's bell. — Truman Capote

There's a level of realism you can only achieve through the imaginary. — Fumito Ueda

I'm thinking about a few weeks in Montreal to work with a producer I met there. — Kimbra

She wouldn't pay attention to how wonderful he smelled. Or how gorgeous those blue eyes were when they sparkled with happiness. Nope. She wouldn't think about it. Not one little bit. — Dawn M. Turner

I looked for it [heavy hydrogen, deuterium] because I thought it should exist. I didn't know it would have industrial applications or be the basic for the most powerful weapon ever known [the nuclear bomb] ... I thought maybe my discovery might have the practical value of, say, neon in neon signs.
[He was awarded the 1931 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering deuterium.] — Harold Urey

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number. — Charles Caleb Colton

Animals should be given a chance to express their natural behavior. — Frans De Waal

I don't want to be immortal through my works. I want to be immortal by not dying. — Woody Allen

And I was constantly trying to stay in body, so to speak. It feels very surreal, and I go away to a happy place where I'm there but not really there. I was just trying to enjoy the night, I guess is what I'm saying. We had a lovely after-party. — James Ponsoldt