Marcelle Tagand Quotes & Sayings

We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man, man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Feel it in thy heart and then say whether it is of God! — Thomas Carlyle

You have to be able to decide, 'Well no, I'm not going to be violent, I'm going to suppress that impulse; I'm not going to be greedy.' Unless you're able to do that you're stuck with adversarial politics that leads nowhere and creates ever greater violence. — Pankaj Mishra

The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development. — Max Ernst

The first thing I noticed about him was that he was born the same year I was drafted ... That's a pretty scary thought. — Al MacInnis

I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter. — Steve Martin

To the one in the skies, this city must look like a scintillating pattern of speckled glows in all directions, like a firecracker going off amid thick darkness. Right now the urban pattern glowing here is in hues of orange, ginger, and ochre. It is a configuration of sparkles, each dot a light lit by someone awake at this hour. From where the Celestial Gaze is situated, from that high above, all these sporadically lit bulbs must seem in perfect harmony, constantly flickering, as if coding a cryptic message to God. — Elif Shafak

Although the surface of our planet is two-thirds water, we call it the Earth. We say we are earthlings, not waterlings. Our blood is closer to seawater than our bones to soil, but that's no matter. The sea is the cradle we all rocked out of, but it's to dust that we go. From the time that water invented us, we began to seek out dirt. The further we separate ourselves from the dirt, the further we separate ourselves from ourselves. Alienation is a disease of the unsoiled. — Tom Robbins

As a man I am flawed, but my music is perfect. — Kanye West

You may say 'Universe'. I say 'Existence'" he replied with infinite patience. — P.R. Ford