Retenez Cette Quotes & Sayings

According to a new poll, 50 percent of Americans think the country is divided. The other 50 percent think it isn't. — Jay Leno

I know this much, is all," Franny said. "If you're a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean you're supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page and everything. The ones you're talking about don't leave a single, solitary thing beautiful. All that maybe the slightly better ones do is sort of get inside your head and leave something there. — J.D. Salinger

There is no faith, however respectable, no interest, however legitimate, which must not accommodate itself to the progress of human knowledge and bend before truth. — Paul Broca

Fear arises from uncertainty. Where there is perfect certainty, there is no fear. — Stephen R. Lawhead

Because when your world has fallen apart around you, it is your friends, your family, that keep you from slipping between the broken crevices. — Eden Butler

It's physics. Pure physics,
I'm falling fast and faster still.
So fall with me. Fall down with me.
And stay. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

Never had I felt so much the slave as when I scoured those stone steps each afternoon. Working against time, I would wet five steps, sprinkle soap powder, then a white doctor or a nurse would come and, instead of avoiding the soppy steps, walk on them and track the dirty water onto the steps that I had already cleaned. To obviate this, I cleaned but two steps at a time, a distance over which a ten-year-old child could step. But it did no good. The white people still plopped their feet down into the dirty water and muddled the other clean steps. If I ever really hotly hated unthinking whites, it was then. Not once during my entire stay at the institute did a single white person show enough courtesy to avoid a wet step. — Richard Wright

I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story. — Salman Rushdie

It could be Paris. It could be Rio de Janeiro. It could be anywhere but home: someplace, anyplace, disorienting enough to make him notice what he wouldn't otherwise see. (The medicinal benefits of disorientation can never be overestimated.) — Bill Buford

Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company. — Henry Ward Beecher