Les Inconnus Quotes & Sayings

Everywhere I go, I see young people: Confident, forward looking. I have seen them in Lagos, in Rwanda, in the suburbs of London. — Binyavanga Wainaina

If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you. — Jack L. Chalker

It is astounding to me, and achingly sad, that with eighty thousand people on the waiting list for donated hearts and livers and kidneys, with sixteen a day dying there on that list, that more then half of the people in the position H's family was in will say no, will choose to burn those organs or let them rot. We abide the surgeon's scalpel to save our own lives, out loved ones' lives, but not to save a stranger's life. H has no heart, but heartless is the last thing you'd call her. — Mary Roach

By analyzing data from Greenwich Observatory in the period 1836-1953, John A. Eddy [Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and High Altitude Observatory in Boulder] and Aram A. Boornazian [mathematician with S. Ross and Co. in Boston] have found evidence that the sun has been contracting about 0.1% per century during that time, corresponding to a shrinkage rate of about 5 feet per hour. And digging deep into historical records, Eddy has found 400-year-old eclipse observations that are consistent with such a shrinkage. — Jonathan Sarfati

Intellect really exists in its products; its kingdom is here. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This world is bursting with silenced women and girls who have stories that need to be screamed, or whispered, or sang. — Rachel Kann

I started in high school and regional theater. Anything that came into town, I wanted to be involved in, because I just wanted to learn. — Valerie Azlynn

'Reform' is a word you always aughta' watch out for. 'Reform' is a change that you're supposed to like. And watch it - As soon as you hear the word 'Reform', you should reach for your wallet and see who's lifting it. — Noam Chomsky

The real world is coming, chugging straight at me like a bulldozer into the rain forest. — Tim Tharp

Serving others prepares you to lead others. — Jim George

I hadn't realized that this whole "water" thing was going to be an issue for me. I mean ... half the world is water, right? And we're all half water to boot. So stepping into the sub should have felt like a sheep falling into a big pile of cotton.
Only it didn't. It felt like a sheep falling into a pile of nails. Wet nails. On the bottom of the ocean. — Brandon Sanderson

Sir Leicester leans back in his chair, and breathlessly ejaculates, Good heaven! — Charles Dickens

My youngest brother killed a lynx yesterday," Rose said.
"Apparently it came into his territory and left some spray marks. He skinned it, smeared himself in its blood, and put its pelt on his shoulders like a cape. And that's how he came dressed for breakfast."
Cerise drank some beer. "My sister kills small animals and hangs their
corpses on a tree, because she thinks she is a monster and she's convinced
we'll eventually banish her from the house. They're her rations. Just in case."
Rose blinked. "I see. I think we're going to get along just fine, don't you?"
"I think so, yes. — Ilona Andrews

Which makes it a bothering sort of day. — A.A. Milne