Octobre 2020 Quotes & Sayings

Time ... brings us everything we have and are, then comes with a back-loader and starts taking it all away. — Jane Hirshfield

I'm not Catholic but the Virgin Mary fascinates me because she's like a folk hero. — Moby

When I disappear, I will disappear; there'll be nothing left. — Christian De Duve

Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea. — Craig Bruce

Her mind still worked, her feet still moved, she could walk, though only with the help of a walker, but walk she did, and she was a human being who knew for certainty that beans are best in salad and that old age is a terrible calamity. — Dubravka Ugresic

It takes the youth, really; they're the ones that should have the energy, it shouldn't be the old geezers, but the signs are very worrying. Half of them, apparently, don't believe in global warming. They think it's a hoax, which is more of that stupid, stick-their-head-in-the-sand attitude. Where is the outrage at the generations that have preceded them spending all the money? But the cynicism is so deep and so ingrained; I guess no one feels they can do anything. — Bill Maher

My friendship with Esther Earl began, as so many great love stories do, at a Harry Potter convention. — John Green

He let me go, and I went to take a shower and thought about Emma. Then I brushed my teeth and thought about Emma and washed my face and thought about Emma. After that I went to my room and took the apple she'd given me out of my pocket and set it on the nightstand, and then, as if to reassure myself she still existed, I got out my phone and looked through the pictures of her I'd taken that afternoon. — Ransom Riggs