Rastignac Comedie Quotes & Sayings

You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose. — Mary Antin

Programming, it turns out, is hard. The fundamental rules are typically simple and clear. But programs built on top of these rules tend to become complex enough to introduce their own rules and complexity. You're building your own maze, in a way, and you might just get lost in it. — Marijn Haverbeke

A relationship is like being in a forest, where snakes lurk awaiting the chance to entice. — Anthony Liccione

Any game plan? (Xypher)
Don't die. (Sin)
I like it. Simple, bold. Impossible. Works for me. (Xypher) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I wish Howard Ashman was still alive so I could just meet him and tell him his words are magic. It's so fun to say. He has such great alliteration and paints the most vivid images with his lyrics — Tituss Burgess

Each one a little bit different but following some blueprint somewhere. As if each of us might have a blueprint. As if somewhere there's the shape of my life, and I had the chance to choose a few variations, but not far from the pattern. — David Vann

Tempt not a desperate man — William Shakespeare

Ideas have consequences and bad ideas can have lethal consequences. — George Weigel

But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God? — Edgar Bergen

The President looked out of his window. He was not very happy. I worry about Bill, Hubert, Henry, Kevin, Edward, Clem, Dan and their lover, Snow White. I sense that all is not well with them. Now, looking out over this green lawn, and these fine rosebushes, and into the night and the yellow buildings, and the falling Dow Jones Index and the screams of the poor, I am concerned. I have many important things to worry about, but I worry about Bill and the boys too. Because I am the President. Finally. the President of the whole fucking country. And they are Americans, Bill, Hubert, Henry, Kevin, Edward, Clem, Dan and Snow White. They are Americans. My Americans. — Donald Barthelme

To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

If joy and peace and rewards were instantaneously given the doer of good, there would be no evil-all would do good but not because of the rightness of doing good. There would be no test of strength, no development of character, no growth of powers, no free agency, only satanic controls. — Spencer W. Kimball