Papillon Novel Quotes & Sayings

Dwelling on pain, spending too much time immersed in it, tasting its flavors, fingering its textures
this makes it only more potent. — Tayari Jones

A man is known by the company he organizes. — Ambrose Bierce

I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer. — Griffin Dunne

No one in our time finds it surprising if a man gives careful daily attention to his body, but people would be outraged if he gave the same attention to his soul. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The cultural capital American Christianity has amassed simply cannot be leveraged where it matters most. — James Davison Hunter

Mount Harris is of basaltic formation, but I could not observe any columnar regularity in it, although large blocks are exposed above the ground. The rock is extremely hard and sonorous. — Charles Sturt

Most entertainers and celebrities realize the influencing power they possess. The sad reality is that those in the know tend to utilise that power with a lack of mission, beliefs and values which could translate to a positive impact of their talent on the lives as well as missions of those who form their fan-base. Their agenda tends to be self-centred but it can change. — Archibald Marwizi

Every expert began as an amateur. — Jeffrey Fry

The word NO, carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes. — Joyce Maynard

One Friday afternoon at the close of the working day the idiot bosses in their fucking ties and suit coats came down and handed out pink slips to every other person on the floor. I got one. They were firing us. Then they turned and, without a word, went back to their offices. Corporate pricks. — John William Tuohy

You cannot go to someone who is 65 or 70 years of age and tell 'em, 'This program that you retired relying on is now being pulled out from underneath you.' — Marco Rubio

Sometimes we can spend years without living at all, and suddenly our whole life is concentrated in a single moment . — Oscar Wilde