Preceda Au Quotes & Sayings

In order than everything should be reduced to the same level, it is first of all necessary to procure a phantom, its spirit, a monstrous abstraction, an all-embracing something which is nothing, a mirage
and that phantom is the public. — Soren Kierkegaard

Currently, the scent of rising dough and hot berries was being sucked through the old air-conditioning unit and spread throughout the main house. This was Lisette's rebellion. She was cooking for guests who weren't coming. It was as if nothing bad could happen if she just kept going. Like a wheel in motion, she seemed to think no one could stop her, or make her leave, once she started. — Sarah Addison Allen

With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life. — Muriel Barbery

My alcoholism is in no way any sort of excuse for any of my past behaviors. Just because I quit drinking, my life was not suddenly transformed into a tabula rasa-if I have wronged someone, drunk or not, then the responsibility for this lies squarely with me. And I must do my best to set things square with that person. ...
....And just because I am sober now does not mean anyone else should care. I do not deserve a cookie for finally trying to act like a decent human being. — D. Randall Blythe

Life to your spirit is not about making a living. — Penelope V. Yorke

So if you were dating the UPS guy, he could buy you whatever the hell he wanted. But I cant.well ... yes, but I'd never date the UPS guy. Those brown shorts are just not a turn-on for me. — Lisa Kleypas

Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that keeps getting told about the inevitability of American progress. — Rick Perlstein

I've read The Satanic Verses and I thought it a nasty, sneering, free-thinking book ... I can understand why the book is offensive and it didn't seem to me to be anything but offensive when I read it. — Maurice Cowling

People will still love and hurt and yearn. — Janet McTeer

You know you're about as forthcoming as a mime. — Shirley Jump