Pauline And Paulette Quotes & Sayings

Game, set, match. Ever, and always, my equal. — A.G. Howard

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle.

I covered the first Gulf War in Saudi Arabia and Israel for ABC News. — Leslie Cockburn

Lips parted, soul entered,
blood rushed through veins,
unconditional and unintentional it was. — Upasana Banerjee

How to repulse a demon (an old problem)? The demons, especially if they are demons of language (and what else could they be?) are fought by language. Hence I can hope to exorcise the demonic word which is breathed into my ears (by myself) if I substitute for it (if I have the gifts of language for doing so) another, calmer word (I yield to euphemism). Thus: I imagined I had escaped from the crisis at last, when behold
favored by a long car trip
a flood of language sweeps me away, I keep tormenting myself with the thought, desire, regret, and rage of the other; and I add to these wounds the discouragement of having to acknowledge that I am falling back, relapsing; but the French vocabulary is a veritable pharmacopoeia (poison on one side, antidote on the other): no, this is not a relapse, only a last soubresaut, a final convulsion of the previous demon. — Roland Barthes

I'd like to see North America become a dry, sunny, sandy region inhabited mainly by lizards, buzzards and a modest human population - about 25 million would be plenty - of pastoralists and prospectors (prospecting for truth), gathering once a year in the ruins of ancient, mysterious cities for great ceremonies of music, art, dance, poetry, joy, faith and renewal. That's my dream of the American future. Like most such dreams, it will probably come true. That is why I'm still an optimist. — Edward Abbey

Janine smiles. Strike the second sentence. Reader will know. Show, don't tell. — Gabrielle Zevin

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth. — Rabindranath Tagore