Promenades De Loutaouais Quotes & Sayings

Whereas the Greeks had Zeus and Athena, we had people who still lived in Verdun. They had a lot to bear on their shoulders. They had to invent the whole world themselves. They were supposed to have supernatural powers and achieve sainthood. When really they just found themselves peering into the mirror above the bathroom sink, looking to see how they were aging. Sitting in the bathtub, smoking a cigarette, terrified of death like the rest of us. — Heather O'Neill

I have often thought, says Sir Roger, it happens very well that Christmas should fall out in the middle of Winter. — Joseph Addison

The name of the artist is more important to them than the quality of the work ... People criticize a picture by their ear — Okakura Kakuzo

If you're not selfish enough to want to feel good, then you can't connect with the energy that is your Source which does always feel good. — Esther Hicks

As an actor, you know there are things you get asked to do that you do quite well, with less effort. — Martin Freeman

History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do. — Kim Stanley Robinson

If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek new worlds, or sail to pow-wow about the dangers of the sea. — Joshua Slocum

probably (as the rumour had spread through the town, reaching her ears) one of the poor maddened turn-outs, — Elizabeth Gaskell

In me the tiger sniffs the rose. — Siegfried Sassoon

I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on. — Hari Kondabolu

All that stuff about flatness - it's this idea that painting is a specialized discipline and that modernist painting increasingly refers to painting and is refining the laws of painting. But who cares about painting? What we care about is that the planet is heating up, species are disappearing, there's war, and there are beautiful girls here in Brooklyn on the avenue and there's food and flowers. — Chris Martin