Illiers Quotes & Sayings

CALVIN:
As usual goodness hardly puts up a fight. — Bill Watterson

Smells like home. — Suzanne Collins

I'll never stop eating animals, I'm sure, but I do think that for the benefit of everyone, the time has come to stop raising them industrially and stop eating them thoughtlessly. — Mark Bittman

In search of a pay phone. He found a phone inside the bus depot. He dialed his bank's number from memory. Nine-forty in the West, twelve-forty in the East. Lunch time in Virginia, but someone should be there. — Lee Child

I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable because forbidden. — Clarice Lispector

Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science. — Freeman Dyson

We are never taught more deeply and more truthfully than by pain. — Bryant McGill

To Die is not as bad as not having lived — W.B. Stiles

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion. — Malcolm X

Poverty isn't being broke; poverty is never having enough. — Betty Jane Wylie

Admit it. I'm the best you ever seen, Fats. I'm the best there is. And even if you beat me, I'm still the best. — Paul Newman

I'm still Vanessa from the neighborhood. My parents own the shop, and I'm there all the time, that I worked in when I was a teenager. I have a child from my childhood sweetheart. — Vanessa Ferlito

I'm praying for 'Ice Age' 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. Because I really think we can run those characters into the '60s, and I'm talking the 1960s, you know? The Civil Rights Movement. That's what I'm praying for, because then I wouldn't have to do anything else. — Denis Leary

It should not be Illiers-Combray that we visit: a genuine homage to Proust would be to look at our world through his eyes, not look at his world through our eyes. — Alain De Botton

It was no amalgam of colors comparable to anything in mortal existence. It was as if all natural colors had been mutated into a painfully lush iridescence by some prism fantastically corrupted in its form; it was a rainbow staining the sky after a poison deluge; it was an aurora painting the darkness with a blaze of insanity, a blaze that did not burn vigorously but shimmered with an insect-jeweled frailness. — Thomas Ligotti

Diversity gives our city a competitive edge. — Thomas Menino