La Vie Boheme Quotes & Sayings

...dancing with someone who is causing you pain is a bit like trying to smile while having a tooth extracted. — Kapka Kassabova

Excuses satisfy no one and apologies make everyone uncomfortable — Robert Greene

Love is like that: insistent, sure, persuasive. It silences easily all whispers of misgiving. — Kate Morton

Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength. — Dalai Lama

I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now. — Michael Phelps

We're going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. — Richard Dawkins

I was always in love with music, but my parents never really saw that I had talent, and it was really just by chance that I made it into the Menuhin School, and from then on my life changed. And that was when I realized, OK, this is what I want to do. But, until then, it was really just a passion, a hobby. — Richard Hyung-ki Joo

Many people see the chance to eat something for nothing, without the need to cook or wash up, as the great consolation of going out to dinner. But they forget quite how difficult it is to talk to a stranger and eat at the same time. — Craig Brown

All issues, therefore, must be resolved through dialogue and there can be no place for violence. Negativity and rejection cannot be the path for a vibrant country that is moving to seek its destiny. — Pratibha Patil

Until that time I had ascribed the reasons for my cultural eclecticism to my condition as a proletarian autodidact. As I have already explained, I have spent every moment of my existence that could be spared from work in reading, watching films, and listening to music.
Muriel Barbery, translated by Alison Anderson, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, 2008 — Muriel Barbery

When we make time to write, we can do it anytime, anywhere. — Julia Cameron

You are mad, Malloreigh!" It is an odd thing to have madness call you mad. Makes you think for a moment that you are sane, but also makes you think that it is truly sane. My mind hurts. I stopped thinking. I painted. — D.J. LeMarr