Perdrau Quotes & Sayings

Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty. — Friedrich Engels

But to carve the Grand Canyon, Earth required millions of years. To excavate Meteor Crater, the universe, using a sixty-thousand-ton asteroid traveling upward of twenty miles per second, required a fraction of a second. No offense to Grand Canyon lovers, but for my money, Meteor Crater is the most amazing natural landmark in the world. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

In nature we find not only that which is expedient, but also everything which is not so inexpedient as to endanger the existence of the species. — Konrad Lorenz

Paint faster than you can think. — Alex Katz

I went to school with a kid who was so smart, the only time he got an answer wrong, they had to go back and change the question. — Gene Perret

I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide. I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle. I live, because it is not ordained for me to die. — Alexandre Dumas

Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on December 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle. Its centerpiece is 40 minutes of redundant special effects, surrounded by a love story of stunning banality. The film has been directed without grace, vision, or originality, and although you may walk out quoting lines of dialog, it will not be because you admire them. — Roger Ebert

Excitement was plentiful during my two years' service as a Pony Express rider. — Buffalo Bill

I like pop music. I also like the sound of a dying refrigerator. I can listen to that for an hour and a half if I'm in the mood. — Kyp Malone

I was already under his spell just by his voice alone. Touching him would make it impossible to ever surface about it. — Ella Frank

Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution. — Eve Ensler

He thought it might be the most intimate thing possible, to fall asleep next to someone in the afternoon. — Jess Walter

And then what would she say? I just told your brother that I love him, and I'm afraid that he hates me? I can't be alone with Turner because I'm afraid he might ravish me? I can't be alone with Turner because I'm afraid I might ravish him. — Julia Quinn

(Thirty-nine steps)' was the phrase; and at its last time of use it ran - '(Thirty-nine steps, I counted them - high tide 10.17 p.m.)'. I could make nothing of that. — John Buchan