Meudon Paris Quotes & Sayings

Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect. — Laura Anne Gilman

Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order. — Hugh Blair

Dieting makes me want to murder everyone around me. — David Foster Wallace

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things. — Arundhati Roy

Whatever you could do with your hands was important because it kept you in a motion of being able to produce something, and producing something kept you balanced in a way. — Ingrid Betancourt

Pick up a fifth-grade math or rhetoric textbook from 1850 and you'll see that the texts were pitched then on what would today be considered college level. The continuing cry for "basic skills" practice is a smoke screen — John Taylor Gatto

Every book is an image of solitude. — Paul Auster

Most senators are just going to work and trying to do a job. — Judd Gregg

But like my father, I have not done anything. I could not, because I am me, because I died long ago. — F. Sionil Jose

We can handle anything when we exchange our worries and fears for alertness and spontaneity, when we focus solely on what is in front of us, and when we leap into the sheer wonder of the unplanned life. — Karen Maezen Miller