Heureux Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes, in that darkness, there is a single act of love, some selfless gesture, an aspiration, and we see that it's not been all waste, all hopeless, and we can ... well ... go on. — John L'Heureux

Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale down your monstrosities. A scream is not a discovery. — John L'Heureux

What a strange thing it is to recognize a sound like the shriek of a wounded animal, when you've never heard the shriek of a wounded animal. — John L'Heureux

I was in doubt, and then everything took a hue of unreality, and I did not know what to trust, even the evidence of my own senses. Not knowing what to trust, I did not know what to do; and so had only to keep on working in what had hitherto been the groove of my life. The groove ceased to avail me, and I mistrusted myself. — Bram Stoker

You do get some weirdos, but if there are any nice people out there who want to write to me pleasantly, then they'll get a pleasant reply back! — Katie Price

One rational voice is dumb: over a grave
The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved.
Sad is Eros, builder of cities,
And weeping anarchic Aphrodite. — W. H. Auden

Guess I am going to take a man-nap. Wake me up when there is food. — Vann Chow

I had always sung in my dad's shop. I worked there after school, and I'd be singing along with the top-40 records of the day. — Neil Diamond

But harboring regrets is making love to the past, and there is no movement here. — Terry Tempest Williams

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old one leaves. — Bill Vaughan

Pour vivre heureux, vivons cache. To live happily, live hidden. — Bill Dedman

Using language like jungle growth isn't the solution to telling a story. — John L'Heureux

There's something about a parenthesis in fiction that puts one off, saying, "It's me, moi, jumping in now." — John L'Heureux

A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience ... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality in the interest of a larger truth. — John L'Heureux

Our salvation never comes in the form we would have chosen. — John L'Heureux

Let good people sin. Give virtue to rotters. — John L'Heureux

Il y aura toujours un chien perdu quelque part qui m'empe" chera d'e" tre heureux. There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me being happy. — Jean Anouilh

A story is about a single moment in a character's life when a definitive choice is made, after which nothing is the same. — John L'Heureux

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change. — Muhammad Ali

Uninvited criticism is insult. — John L'Heureux

There must occur a time in every man's life when the idea of a sudden, irrational death does not frighten him. This shall suffice to cure a lot of his persistent miseries. — Ashfaq Saraf

On the other hand, who would be a more dedicated gay-basher than a gay school board member? look at congress. — John L'Heureux

Alanna Carrington, head witch of the Philadelphia Coven, hurtled his way, and with her, trouble was a guarantee. — Katherine McIntyre

From all these experiences the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type design, in its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader. — Adrian Frutiger

God is not an audiophile demanding the best possible stage sound. — Gangai Victor

You must get beyond divertissement, sketch, anecdote, the interesting moment. You must get to the mystery of human personality. What is the line of the story that leads us to a point where we see or intuit something we haven't before? — John L'Heureux

Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space. — John L'Heureux

Happy the poet who with ease can steer
From grave to gay, from lively to severe.
[Lat., Heureux qui, dans ses vers, sait d'une voix legere
Passer du grave au doux, du plaisant au severe.] — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Cry no tears for us, my friend." I pry at her fingers, panicking to be released in fear that she may drag me into death with her. She croaks again, "Lend no aches to the dreams of yesterday."
From the corpse of Warren, his greyish gums smack from whatever goo has settled in his mouth, "Allow the tide sweep free the bay."
Then together they sing in zombie choir, "And home the ships sailing send. — Nathan Reese Maher

Nothing on earth in fiction is less interesting than characters under the influence of alcohol. — John L'Heureux