Prenne French Quotes & Sayings

Literary readings aren't going to shake their reputation as the added-fibre of our entertainment diet until the people who organize and participate in them snap out of this mentality. — Lynn Coady

I think my writing is part of my ministry. — Robert Fulghum

There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in
the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

We have heard talk enough. We have listened to all the drowsy, idealess, vapid sermons that we wish to hear. We have read your Bible and the works of your best minds. We have heard your prayers, your solemn groans and your reverential amens. All these amount to less than nothing. We want one fact. We beg at the doors of your churches for just one little fact. We pass our hats along your pews and under your pulpits and implore you for just one fact. We know all about your mouldy wonders and your stale miracles. We want a this year's fact. We ask only one. Give us one fact for charity. Your miracles are too ancient. The witnesses have been dead for nearly two thousand years. — Robert G. Ingersoll

The whole message God wants to tell us is that if we want to experience God, we must first abandon our thoughts and then start thinking His. — K.P. Yohannan

Sticking to my schedule, I've gotten over seven months ahead, which allowed me to write a 'Pearls Before Swine' movie script for the big screen. — Stephan Pastis

My father, George, has also affected the choices in my life regarding films. I like films that take chances or say something different or experiment. Growing up with him, I was surrounded by different artists - not just actors or film-makers but cartoonists, poets, writers. — Leonardo DiCaprio

There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death. — Agathon

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves. — Dave Eggers

You have to stick to what you love and purse that at all costs. Don't choose money first; it won't make you happy. — Joel Edgerton

The trouble with space is, there's so much of it.
An ocean of blackness without any shore.
A neverending nothing.
And here, all alone in the million billion miles of midnight, is one solitary moving speck. A fragile parcel filled with sleeping people and their dreams. — Philip Reeve

At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I always felt like we were here to do a job, so you should be out there practicing and playing. — Logan Mankins