Le Guillou Eric Quotes & Sayings

I'm producing too many stories at once because what I want is for you to feel, around the story, a saturation of other stories that I could tell and maybe will tell or who knows may already have told on some other occasion, a space full of stories that perhaps is simply my lifetime, where you can move in all directions, as in space, always finding stories that cannot be told until other stories are told first, and so, setting out from any moment or place, you encounter always the same density of material to be told. — Italo Calvino

As a surgical patient, by means of a local anaesthetic, can look on with a clear consciousness while an operation is being performed upon him and yet feel nothing, I could repeat to myself some favourite lines, or watch my grandfather attempting to talk to Swann about the Duc d'Audriffet-Pasquier, without being able to kindle any emotion from one or amusement from the other. — Marcel Proust

Long distance is hard. You have to trust that as you each change on your own, your relationship will also change along with you. It takes hope, good humor, and idealism. It takes a massive dose of courage to protect the relationship at all odds. It is hard, but worth it. You'll both be stronger as a result. — Craig M. Mullaney

Most sculptors make the mistake", he said, "of thinking of eyes as form and they therefore make them as spherical surfaces. Eyes are not forms, they are transparent, and what one really sees is the light of the soul in them - and that is what I try to give them — Walter Russell

When we're online, we're often oblivious to everything else going on around us. The real world recedes as we process the flood of symbols and stimuli coming through our devices. — Nicholas Carr

Brutality." Augustus lets the word hang in the air. "It is neither evil nor good. It is simply an adjective of a thing, an action in this case. What you must parse is the nature of the action. — Pierce Brown

I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time. — Alex Kapranos

This is about as comforting as a cold brick when you're lonely. — Maggie Stiefvater

I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully. — Dave Matthews

A lot of people who came into my family's life looking like heroes ended up acting more like villains. — Brian K. Vaughan

The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit. — Morihei Ueshiba

I love the earth. If you ask me it's the greatest planet in the world. — Stephen Colbert

The world is not a courtroom There is no judge no jury no plaintiff. This is a caravan filled with eccentric beings telling wondrous stories about God. — Saadi

I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy. — Bernard Haitink