Lecointele Quotes & Sayings

I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years. — Poppy Z. Brite

What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Even though he worked in the darkness, his mind was filled with light. — Pepper Winters

Where the hell is Ralph? — Jandy Nelson

New York is unruly, tangled. The city woos first, then mangles, then pastes back together in a fresh, dazzling mosaic. — Elizabeth Winder

Boredom is the keynote of poverty ... it's dark brown sameness. — Moss Hart

A person who really likes himself or herself has high self-esteem and therefore a positive self-concept. When you really like yourself in a particular role, you perform at your best in that role. — Brian Tracy

In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The intellectual's hostility to the businessman presents no mystery, as the two have, by function, wholly different standards. While the businessman's motto is the customer is always right, the intellectual's task is to preserve his perceived standards against the weight of popular opinion. — Bertrand De Jouvenel

Augustine insisted that this longing is as true for Christ-followers as it is for anyone else: "If I should ask you why you believe in Christ, and why you have become Christians, every man will answer truthfully by saying: for the sake of a happy life. — Randy Alcorn

Worship isn't a feeling you wait for, it's a choice you make. — Chris Tomlin

THE MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA(1929) the 'honesty' of documentary as compared with fiction film, the 'perfection' of the cinematic eye compared with human eye. — Steven Jay Schneider

Turn, Liz said, trying not to hide her impatience at being forced to read at non-speed-of-light pace. — Ally Carter

The stars are far brighter Than gems without measure, The moon is far whiter Than silver in treasure; The fire is more shining On hearth in the gloaming Than gold won by mining, So why go a-roaming? O! Tra-la-la-lally Come back to the Valley. — J.R.R. Tolkien