Quatuor Uccle Quotes & Sayings

You cannot see the lettuce and the dressing without suspecting a salad. — Arthur Conan Doyle

And tonight our skin, our bones, that have survived our fathers, will meet, delicate in the hold, fastened together in an intricate lock. Then one of us will shout, "My need is more desperate!" and I will eat you slowly with kisses even though the killer in you has gotten out. — Anne Sexton

The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless. — Anne Lamott

The quality of conversation appears to be a key factor in the evolution of an organization. — Philip Streatfield

Forty-three years old, and still afraid of my father. Some tycoon, hunh? — John Saul

Part of being a big winner is the ability to be a big loser. There is no paradox involved. It is a distinctly Harvard thing to be able to turn any defeat into victory — Erich Segal

Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved by a true estimation of another's weakness, thousands have been destroyed by a false appreciation of their own strength. — Charles Caleb Colton

He hears but half who hears one party only. — Aeschylus

23From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some boys came out of the town and jeered at him. "Get out of here, baldy!" they said. "Get out of here, baldy!" 24He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys. 25And he went on to Mount Carmel and from there returned to Samaria. — Anonymous

If an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc analyst has access to query raw SIGINT databases, they can enter and get results for anything they want. Phone number, email, user id, cell phone handset id (IMEI), and so on - it's all the same. — Edward Snowden

In the good times of Dada, we detested polished works, the distracted air of spiritual struggle, the titans, and we rejected them with all out being. — Hans Arp

In the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song. — Muriel Barbery