Nlaux Quotes & Sayings

Could a mare only like mares or stallions, or could a mare like whatever she damn pleased? Maybe she just didn't know enough yet to understand what she was or what she wanted. Or maybe she was lots of things, just as her skin was a mixture of browns. Maybe she didn't have to like anything. — Lila Bowen

I've never seen a performer create electricity with an audience like James Brown. He's got everybody in his hands and whatever he wants to do with them, he does it. It's amazing. I've always thought he was underrated. — Michael Jackson

As a graduate of the Citadel, the military college of South Carolina, I am astonished by Tolstoy's absolute mastery at describing battles and military tactics. If I were teaching military history in any country in the world, I would make War and Peace required reading for anyone who held any ambition for advancement into the officer corps. It should be on the night table of the leader of every country who wishes to send troops into war. No writer has ever described the horror and anarchy of battle with more authority. It is one of the timeless lessons of War and Peace that no one, not Napoleon, nor the Tsar, nor the Russian general Katuzov, has any idea how a war is going to turn out once it is unleashed. Napoleon — Leo Tolstoy

Houses are for private living, for friends, and for dogs. — Francoise Sagan

What I thought at the moment was the worst thing that could happen was absolutely the biggest gift I've received. — Trey Anastasio

Jazz told people about the special music that came out of America and about America in general and this kind of liberty and freedom that we have. — Al Jarreau

Each brushstroke is a decision. — Robert Motherwell

One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Life strove mightily to exile orthodoxy, hospitalize heresy, and trap humanity into stupidity. It was an accumulation of used bandages soiled with layers of blood and pus. Life was the daily changing of the bandages of the heart that made the incurably sick, young and old alike, cry out in pain. — Yukio Mishima

I hate flying, flat out hate its guts. — William Shatner

Strugglin' and striving, that's how the dough come. — Tupac Shakur

At night, time becomes a calm sea. It goes on for ever. — Francoise Sagan