Lawrence Durrell Justine Quotes & Sayings

I want a boat that drinks 6, eats 4, and sleeps 2. — Ernest K. Gann

The only thing they had in common was Calypso, and every time Leo thought about that he wanted to punch Percy in the face. — Rick Riordan

After all the work of the philosophers on his soul and the doctors on his body, what can we really say we know about a man? That he is, when all is said and done, just a passage for liquids and solids, a pipe of flesh. — Lawrence Durrell

How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work. — Lawrence Durrell

Self-care means accepting some risk, and accepting much responsibility. It is not for all people or all cases. — Andrew Saul

I've been to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It's a tower, and it's leaning. You look at it, but nothing happens, so then you look for someplace to get a sandwich. — Danny DeVito

What a lot of hairy-faced men there are around nowadays. — Roald Dahl

I had often heard Mentor say, that the voluptuous were never brave, and I now found by experience that it was true; for the Cyprians whose jollity had been so extravagant and tumultuous, now sunk under a sense of their danger and wept like women. I heard nothing but the screams of terror and the wailings of hopeless distress. Some lamented the loss of pleasures that were never to return; but none had presence of mind either to undertake or direct the navigation of the menaced vessel. — Francois Fenelon

If I'm wrong about God then I wasted my life. If you're wrong about God then you wasted your eternity. — LeCrae

word on shame: If there is any one thing that can hold us back, it is our own self-loathing. If we move through our lives ashamed of ourselves, it is very difficult to imagine and believe in our highest possibilities. Unfortunately we often don't know how much shame we carry. Droplets of shame get behind our eyes and blind us to who we really are. — Jeff Brown

I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory. — Lawrence Durrell

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. — Thomas Carlyle

The CEO's role in raising a company's corporate IQ is to establish an atmosphere that promotes knowledge sharing and collaboration. — Bill Gates

I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters. — Conrad Hall

If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration. — Ralph Waldo Emerson