Lecourt Salons Quotes & Sayings

Often the simplest song is the hardest to write. — Patti Smith

One thing that is almost always said to me is, I grew up with you. They are meeting me and feel that they actually grew up with me. I was with them during their play hours and thinking hours. I was a part of their childhoods. That's one of the most amazing things. — Mark Goddard

I think people are really looking for some way whereby we can grow our souls rather than our economy. I think that at some level, people recognize that growing our economy is destroying us. It's destroying us as human beings, it's destroying our planet. I think there's a great human desire for solutions, for profound solutions - and that nothing simple will do it. It really requires some very great searching of our souls. — Grace Lee Boggs

Well, don't do it anymore. You deserve someone who wants you every time you walk in the room. — Stacey Wallace Benefiel

One never imagined that as the decades went by, one might drift into an unbounded country. It struck Lib now how alone in the world she was. — Emma Donoghue

For youth, everything is sport. — Leonardo Da Vinci

owned a fabric store. She — Fran Stewart

Over his illustrious career, John Harris has explored the most challenging bioethical questions with insight, engaging wit, and eloquence. In Enhancing Evolution, Harris does it again. He argues that it is not just an option but an obligation for people to use available biomedical technologies to enhance their own
and their children's
physical and mental abilities. Harris rightly deserves his reputation for fearlessly following his ethical arguments wherever they lead. — Ezekiel Emanuel

This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society, — Ai Weiwei

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Be thankful all she did was raise her voice," Mr. Blackpool told Sarah conspiratorially. "During the ride to London, I had to talk her out of scaling up the townhouse walls, should the door go unanswered."
She had to hide her smile at the image of flamboyant Mrs. Blackpool climbing row houses like a circus monkey. "We are fortunate indeed that such measures did not prove necessary. — Erica Ridley

Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of what people felt after 9/11 - confusion even. And I think that's hard to capture in journalism. — Amy Waldman

I desire to have a dialogue that's positive, and communicative and moves forward, and is about something real, not just consumption. — Mike Vallely