Raconter Quotes & Sayings

Even in childhood I watched the hours flow, independent of any reference, any action, any event, the disjunction of time from what was not itself, its autonomous existence, its special status, its empire, its tyranny. I remember quite clearly that afternoon when, for the first time, confronting the empty universe, I was no more than a passage of moments reluctant to go on playing their proper parts. Time was coming unstuck from being - at my expense. — Emil M. Cioran

I hope that I have accomplished just one thing: that I have been a credit to tennis and my country. — Althea Gibson

I feel like I am either on the cusp of something great, or standing on the edge of my abyss, discovering something brand new, or uncovering somebody elses lost imagination. — Carroll Bryant

She did not exist: she would not be born till tomorrow, some time after eight o'clock a.m.; and I would wait to be assured she had come into the world alive before I assigned to her all that property. — Charlotte Bronte

What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of 'The Naked and the Dead' and American literature's leading heavyweight contender, to Dan Wolf, the delphic editor of 'The Village Voice.' — James Wolcott

Through silence, through meditation, and through non-judgment, you will access the first law, the Law of Pure Potentiality. — Deepak Chopra

The songs are always drawn from personal experience; I'm putting myself into my music. I usually am playing myself. It's art, art that represents my life. — Steve Grand

By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them.
[Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.] — Pierre Corneille