Poulaye Quotes & Sayings

Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.'
Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part. — Toni Morrison

For the mindful god does detest untimely growth. — Friedrich Holderlin

It had been a long night already, and now here I was, locked in another fight to the death. Sometimes it just didn't pay to leave the house. — Jennifer Estep

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness. — Terry Pratchett

When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler. — Al Gore

What we witnessed with the death of Kennedy was the triumph of television; what we saw with his assassination, and with his funeral, was the beginning of television's dominance of our culture
for television is at its most solemnly self-serving and at its mesmerizing best when it is depicting the untimely deaths of the chosen and the golden. It is as witness to the butchery of heroes in their prime
and of all holy-seeming innocents
that televisions achieves its deplorable greatness. — John Irving

The work of art expresses precisely those things which do not die. It must do so, however, in a form that bears witness to the artist's own era. — Constantin Brancusi

Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing. — Byron Katie

As soon as the rover toppled, I curled into a ball and cowered. That's the kind of action hero I am. — Andy Weir

Everywhere I go, every city, they're always like, 'What's in the water in Canada? What's in the water in Toronto?' — Alessia Cara

You start to get nervous when the value of a comic book or graphic novel is relative to the achievements of some other medium. — Adrian Tomine

Meditation is the straight flight of the mind to the Kingdom of Heaven present in the heart of everyone. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don't want to hear you speak. — Chrissy Teigen

Her concentration was gone, and last night she had had a nightmare about discovering a formalism that let her translate arbitrary concepts into mathematical expressions: then she had proven that life and death were equivalent. — Ted Chiang