Printemps Quotes & Sayings

Then occurred a rare thing about which men and women sometimes dream. They carried on a full conversation in complete silence, discerning feelings, plans, exclamations, jokes, opinions, laughter, and dreams- rapidly, silently, inexplicably. — Mark Helprin

Comedy is harder than drama, because with comedy you're expecting a result..you make them laugh. [If] they ain't laughing then you're screwed. — Billy Bob Thornton

In dim ways he recognised in man the animal that had fought itself to primacy over the other animals of the Wild. — Jack London

I feel myself quite wild with excitement. — Bram Stoker

I was reading, absorbed in an assault on K2 by a team of Japanese mountaineers, my lungs constricting in the thin burning air, the deadly sting of wind-lashed ice in my face, when the record
Le Sacre du Printemps
caught in the groove with a gnashing squeal as if a stageful of naiads, dryads and spandex satyrs had simultaneously gone lame. — T.C. Boyle

The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking. If we want to change the world we have to change our thinking ... no problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it. We must learn to see the world anew. — Albert Einstein

The world melted away all around him, when he stood alone like a star in the sky — Hermann Hesse

The odds of not meeting in this life are so great that every meeting is like a miracle. It's a wonder that we don't make love to every single person we meet. — Yoko Ono

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

I'm not asking a poem to carry a lot of rocks in its pockets. Just being an ordinary observer and liver and feeler and letting the experience get through you onto the notebook with the pen, through the arm, out of the body, onto the page, without distortion. — Sharon Olds

When I look back now, it must have been like Paris was at the time of Le Sacre du Printemps. — David Baker

The CIA could not face up to the American people and admit that its former employees had conspired to assassinate the President; so from the moment Kennedy's heart stopped beating, the Agency attempted to sweep the whole conspiracy under the rug. — Jim Garrison

As I was coming up in business, screwing up was not an option in any form. — Kevin Allen

I know you've been burned. But I've been burned too. Maybe our ashes can make something beautiful together. — Karina Halle

Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris. — Elliott Carter