Nodier Quotes & Sayings

The computing field is always in need of new cliches. — Alan Perlis

As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses. — Karen Hughes

There is something marvelously soft in the study of nature which attaches a name to every being, a thought to every name, affection and memories to every thought. — Charles Nodier

To believe everything is to be an imbecile.
To deny everything is to be a fool. — Charles Nodier

But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than is ordinarily imagined. — Charles Nodier

Women are half the society. You cannot have a revolution without women. You cannot have democracy without women. You cannot have equality without women. You can't have anything without women. — Nawal El Saadawi

It is wrong to kill anyone. It is wrong to kill those who kill. It is wrong to kill the executioner. The laws on murder must be killed! — Charles Nodier

The harder the fighting and the longer the war, the more the infantry, and in fact all the arms, lean on the gunners. — Bernard Law Montgomery

Our years, our debts, and our enemies are always more numerous than we imagine. — Charles Nodier

Do not be alarmed if they look paler than the other maidens of Greece. They are scarcely of this Earth, and seem to be shaking off the sleep of a past life. — Charles Nodier

A writer should read until he is filled to the brim and like a pitcher which is over-filled over flows. And then he should write. — Charles Nodier

I so believe that older women have tremendous value to their families, their community, their country, the world. — Sally Field

Each of them is a book through which other books dream. (referring to Nodier's SMARRA and TRILBY) — John Clute

Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods. — Charles Nodier

Literature is the expression of society. — Charles Nodier

I was born in 1960, and space theory, especially in the last part of that time and going into the '70s, space was very relevant at that time. It was on television - all the experiments, the moon landings, everything like that. — Sarah Brightman

[Charles] Nodier's later view was that fantasy reconciles men to their fate. Fantasy and the taste for chimeras, he wrote, are symptoms of a time of political decay and transition, when the unpleasant realities of political life are too hard to bear. They serve a useful purpose in that they give men hope when scepticism and disillusion would otherwise drive them to despair. — Peter Partner

The winter will be long and bleak. Nature has a dismal aspect. — Charles Nodier

The world is not thy friend — William Shakespeare

After owning books, almost the next best thing is talking about them. — Charles Nodier

In another world,' he said, lowering his voice; I remember ... was it not in another world, in a life which was not in thrall to sleep and its phantoms? ... — Charles Nodier

If you are alone, tell some stories to yourself. This is a different kind of pleasure and it has, indeed, its reward. I have tasted a little of everything, and I have truly never enjoyed anything more. — Charles Nodier

After the pleasure of possessing books there is hardly anything more pleasant than that of speaking of them, and of communicating to the public the innocent richness of thought which we have acquired by the culture of letters. — Charles Nodier

Civically engaged, business oriented, technology obsessed, and socially skilled, Franklin was "our founding Yuppie," declares the New York Times columnist David Brooks. Franklin "would have felt right at home in the information revolution," Walter Isaacson writes in his biography of the statesman. "We can easily imagine having a beer with him after work, showing him how to use the latest digital device, sharing the business plan of a new venture, and discussing the most recent political scandals or policy ideas." The essence of Franklin's appeal is that he was brilliant but practical, interested in everything, but especially in how things work. — Fareed Zakaria

Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. — Robert Runcie

Scarcely has night arrived to undeceive, unfurling her wings of crepe (wings drained even of the glimmer just now dying in the tree-tops); scarcely has the last glint still dancing on the burnished metal heights of the tall towers ceased to fade, like a still glowing coal in a spent brazier, which whitens gradually beneath the ashes, and soon is indistinguishable from the abandoned hearth, than a fearful murmur rises amongst them, their teeth chatter with despair and rage, they hasten and scatter in their dread, finding witches everywhere, and ghosts. It is night ... and Hell will gape once more. — Charles Nodier

The most beautiful things can only be created by the most free minds! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Who knows what will happen or where I will be sent, yet already I have given a great many things away, expecting to be told to pack nothing, except the prayers which, with this thirst, I am slowly learning. — Mary Oliver