Madame De Lafayette Quotes & Sayings

To be in your children's memories tomorrow,
You have to be in their lives today. — Barbara Johnson

Sometimes when a new piece of knowledge comes along you suddenly change your priorities and focus on something completely different instead. — John Hartford

I read that a lot of people think I'm gay. I don't care. My boyfriend and I are not really phased by what people say. — Monica Raymund

I considered quitting graduate school. I paid my ticket, I rode the ride. Right? Half the people I started with quit. I did not have to continue toward scholar. But something wouldn't let me. Some deep wrestling match going on inside my rib house and gray matter. Some woman in me I'd never met. You know who she was? My intellect. When I opened the door and there she stood, with her sassy red reading glasses and fitted skirt and leather bookbag, I thought, who the hell are you? Crouching into a defensive posture and looking at her warily out of the corner of my eye. Watch out, woman. To which she replied, I'm Lidia. I have a desire toward language and knowledge that will blow your mind. — Lidia Yuknavitch

Here I am thirty-four years old, and yet my life is almost wholly unexpanded. How much time is in the germ! There is such an interval between my ideal and the actual in many circumstances that I may say I am unborn. — Henry David Thoreau

Come on, Iko."
Iko was still hiding, hugging herself self-consciously. "Is he looking?"
Kai raised an eyebrow.
"He's not looking," said Cinder.
A hesitation. "Are you sure?"
Cinder gestured exasperatedly at Kai. "You're not looking."
He cast his eyes to the ceiling. "Oh, for all the stars." Crossing his arms, he turned his back on them. — Marissa Meyer

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative. — John Dewey

You really have to go searching desperately to find any contemporary examples of good, old-fashioned runaway inflation. — Paul Krugman

So that's it," he said. "Three hundred dollars. I wish somebody would come into this country with a seed that had to be worked everyday from New Year's right on through Christmas. As soon as you niggers are laid-by, trouble starts. — William Faulkner

Being able to play a role where you're there almost every day and you're just in it ... I remember it was a whirlwind, but it was a lot of fun. — Peter Jacobson

Little sisters," Carter said. "If they talked too much, the Egyptians threw them to the crocodiles. — Rick Riordan

People are basically screwed-up and often the best you can do for them is listen, hear the worst and then tell it's not so bad. — Michael Nava