Lille Quotes & Sayings

Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold. — Alain De Lille

There are few people who will make mistakes with fire after having once been burned. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo

They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it. — Willie Mays

His so-fucking-vivid imagination rarely gave him the horrors, but when it did, God help him. God help him once it was warmed up. It was not only warmed up now, it was hot and running on full choke. That there was no sense at all in what he was thinking made not a whit of difference in the dark. In the dark, rationality seemed stupid and logic a dream. In the dark he thought with his skin. — Stephen King

It's a shame, but also for kids it's so easy now for them to download it to their phone and listen to it everywhere. If you go to Lille Eurostar station there is music playing: Why? What's the point? It's like showing someone a movie on a small crappy screen. It should be sounding good! There's a lot of noise pollution, in that sense. — Stephen Dewaele

Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man. — Bertrand Russell

An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women. — Alain De Lille

Make mistakes, Lille. Walk on the cracks. Break the rules that were made to be broken. — L. H. Cosway

You didn't really think they were ghosts, did you?"
I blushed and Tolya cleared his throat. Zoya rolled her eyes and strode toward the hill. "I am surrounded by fools. — Leigh Bardugo

The Secret of Drawing consists of just two things: 1) Making lines on paper; and 2) Choosing where they go. — James A. Owen

He who stands still, goes backward. — Lille Lehmann

The average player has the ball for only 53.4 seconds every game (according to Chris Carling, the English performance analyst at Lille in France) so any player's main job is to occupy the right positions for the other eighty-nine minutes and 6.6 seconds. — Simon Kuper

Lille lost her way — L. H. Cosway

Every creature in the world is like a book and a picture and a mirror for us — Alain De Lille

You're a stranger. A kind of scary-looking stranger, if I'm being honest, no offence. So leading you right to where I live would be dumb, right?"
He almost smiled, and wow, when Jack McCabe almost smiled, it really was something to behold. I wasn't sure I could handle a full one. "I'm good scary, Lille. The kind that frightens off bad scary. — L. H. Cosway

I wear a name tag to help people find me. It saves time when you're dealing with idiots. — Eoin Colfer

I hate asking directions. I am always afraid that the person I approach will step back and say, 'You want to go where? The centre of Brussels? Boy, are you lost. This is Lille, you dumb shit,' then stop other passers-by and say, 'You wanna hear something classic? Buddy, tell these people where you think you are,' and that I'll have to push my way through a crowd of people who are falling about and wiping tears of mirth from their eyes. So I trudged on. — Bill Bryson

I'd always wanted to write something about the Korean War because of my heritage. My father lost his brother during the war, and I fictionalized that episode, which was told to me very briefly without much detail. — Chang-rae Lee

Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold. — Alain De Lille

Skin is important, Lille. Some marks last forever. You have to decide if they're worth it. — L. H. Cosway

For this world of readers and writers. There's nowhere else I'd rather be than here with you. May we all have an adventure just like Lille's, in the pages and in our minds. — L. H. Cosway

If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair, you're fooling yourself. That's like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn't eat him. — John Spence

You've got me under your skin now, Lille. — L. H. Cosway