Rennes Quotes & Sayings

Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate. — Emily Greene Balch

Before she had died she had been young, like him, and not yet been onced by life. Today — Ali Smith

The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly. — Norman Ralph Augustine

Creating a representation of yourself for the Internet stopped making sense when we were all on phones and connected everywhere. — Evan Spiegel

Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits. — Don Meyer

Continuing up Rennes. Dodging little Saabs and Renaults. Loving walking here. Sun alternately streaming. Obliterating physiognomies. No longer nouns. But movement. Disappearing. Now heavily raining. Sitting out anyway. Over drain smelling of beer. Metro. Sewers. Fetid breath of Paris. Two cold coffees. Watching shadows lengthening. On la Gaite opposite. Where Colette once performing. Having walked in old boots across city. Drawing mole above lip. Rice-powdering delicious arms. Paris a drug. P saying on phone. Yes Paris a drug. A woman. And I waking this a.m. Thinking there must be some way. Of staying. Now my love's silhouette of rooftops eclipsing. Into night. Cold heinous breath. Blowing on privates. Through grille underneath. — Gail Scott

Simply put, when women do well, everybody does better. — Madeleine M. Kunin

If a man without a woman, as it says in a passage in the Talmud dear to the heart of Kafka, is not a man, then it is Amshel who became a man, even though on the point of death, but it is Franz who narrates this odyssey and teaches us how to become Amshel, how to become a man. — Claudio Magris

It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else — Kwame Nkrumah