Retoucherie Quotes & Sayings

For years, I had no time for exploratory travel. — Renee Fleming

His heart woke him up to remind him that in life there was never a limitless number of nights. The — Ann Patchett

Nature is like a wild animal that you have trained to work for you. So long as you are vigilant and walk warily with thought and care, so long will it give you its aid, but look away for an instant, be heedless or forgetful, and it has you by the throat. — Kamala Markandaya

It's curious and ridiculous how much the gaze of a prudish and painfully chaste man touched by love can sometimes express and that precisely at a moment when the man would of course sooner be glad to fall through the earth than to express anything with a word or a look. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic. — Brit Marling

I had often heard Mentor say, that the voluptuous were never brave, and I now found by experience that it was true; for the Cyprians whose jollity had been so extravagant and tumultuous, now sunk under a sense of their danger and wept like women. I heard nothing but the screams of terror and the wailings of hopeless distress. Some lamented the loss of pleasures that were never to return; but none had presence of mind either to undertake or direct the navigation of the menaced vessel. — Francois Fenelon

As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies - but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that in them hatred grows to monstrous and uncanny proportions, to the most spiritual and poisonous kind of hatred. The truly great haters in world history have always been priests; likewise the most ingenious haters: other kinds of spirit hardly come into consideration when compared with the spirit of priestly vengefulness. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Today she feels she is the master of her craft. Today she is free of the grinding tyranny of doubt. The voice that mocks her ambition. The voice that bites and slanders and causes her more heartache than any other voice. Today she is focused, she is exultant. Her every brushstroke like a wake of radiance. Today she can move the paint around the canvas at will. If only painting were like this every day. Without the sudden extinguishing of light, the collapsing of belief, the cursing and flailing, the knots and clenched fists in a world gone suddenly dark. — Glenn Haybittle

Are you OLD?"
"No. I'm only twelve. But I've been that for a long time. — John Ajvide Lindqvist

I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it. — Olivier Theyskens

I don't see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it's perhaps that certain books require different densities of language. — John Scott

My goal is to always come from a place of love ... but sometimes you just have to break it down for a motherfucker — RuPaul

It's amazing how a bed feels more like a home than any other part of a house. — David Bowick

I became a real Shell Motor Oil expert, and I did this 25-minute film. It turned out really well and, as a result, they offered me more work and lots of commercials to direct. — Renny Harlin

Hard to feel confident when you're surrounded by horse-sized wolves.
- Emmett Cullen — Stephenie Meyer