Maison Du Monde Quotes & Sayings

Learn everything you can learn now while you are young. If you think you are old now, well let me remind you that NOTHING IS TOO LATE. If you will start it now, you are never too old to do it! Don't wait for another year older for you to learn something new. JUST DO IT. (You listen to Nike!) — Diana Rose Morcilla

He smiled and it was beautiful and horrible what I saw in it. Hope that should not be born and desire that could never bear fruit. Whether they were my feelings or his, I did not know. — Gwen Hayes

The construction of a new body of knowledge always bears direct connection to the ideology in which it operates. Historical insights that diverge from the narrative laid down at the inception of the nation can be accepted only when consternation about their implications is abated. This can happen when the current collective identity begins to be taken for granted and ceases to be something anxiously and nostalgically clings to a mythical past, when identity becomes the basis for living and not its purpose - that is when historiographic change can take place. — Shlomo Sand

Children are ingenuous. They are also blessed with uncanny ability to read a person's character instantly. Even though they are inexperienced and unsophisticated, they often know instinctively who can be trusted and who is the charlatan. — Wess Stafford

If I wished to shake this tree with my hands, I should not be able to do so.
But the wind, which we do not see, troubles and bends it as it lists. We are worst bent and troubled by invisible hands. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I spent most of the eighties, most of my life, riding around in somebody else's car, in possession of, or ingested of, something illegal, on my way from something illegal to something illegal with many illegal things happening all around me — Iggy Pop

An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect. — Mark Twain

It is through suppression that hells are formed in us. — Susan Glaspell

People say I'm a nice girl saying terrible things. I tend to say the opposite of what I think. You hope that the absolute power of that transcends, and reaches the audience. — Sarah Silverman

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories. — George Carlin

Slander is the tool of cowards. — Vanna Bonta

I guess I just always want to surprise myself and say something that I'm not really quite sure where it came from, and it sort of makes sense and has a kind of profundity to it. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't. — David Shrigley

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously. — Logan Pearsall Smith

Indian food is a luxury on tour. — Mahesh Bhupathi

Is it me? Is it like I have a beacon that only dogs and men with severe emotional problems can hear? — Lisa Kudrow