Legrandin Quotes & Sayings

I dined with Legrandin on the terrace of his house by moonlight. "There is a charming quality, is there not," he said to me, "in this silence; for hearts that are wounded, as mine is, a novelist whom you will read in time to come asserts that there is no remedy but silence and shadow. And you see this, my boy, there comes in all our lives a time, towards which you still have far to go, when the weary eyes can endure but one kind of light, the light which a fine evening like this prepares for us in the stillroom for darkness, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence. — Marcel Proust

I did not wait to hear the end of my father's story, for I had been with him myself after mass when we had met M. Legrandin; instead, I went downstairs to the kitchen to ask about the menu for our dinner, which was of fresh interest to me daily, like the news in a paper, and excited me as might the programme of a coming festivity. — Marcel Proust

One of the most important tools that a filmmaker has are his/her notes. — Francis Ford Coppola

Religion is like a parachute. It does not let us fly, but it helps to get us down in the ditch. — Debasish Mridha

But really Legrandin had no need to remind people so often that he belonged to another planet when all his uncontrollable impulses of anger or affability were governed by the desire to occupy a good position on this one. — Marcel Proust

Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract. — Madeleine L'Engle

We long for our churches to be safe places to doubt, to ask questions, and to tell the truth, even when it's uncomfortable. — Rachel Held Evans

I make all my body lotions by just mixing oils. — Nikki Reed