Rondeau Quotes & Sayings

There are some things you never say good-bye to — Elizabeth Berg

There are no hard problems, only problems that are hard to a certain level of intelligence. Move the smallest bit upwards [in intelligence] and some problems move from "impossible" to "obvious." Move a substantial degree upwards, and all of them will become obvious. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory. — Milan Kundera

You're right. I do want everything. I'm sorry that's too much to ask, but I believe we're both worth it. I'm sorry you don't. — Jennifer Probst

I have one word to say upon the subject of profound writers, who are grown very numerous of late; and I know very well the judicious world is resolved to list me in that number. I conceive therefore, as to the business of being profound, that it is with writers as with wells; a person with good eyes may see to the bottom of the deepest, provided any water be there; and often, when there is nothing in the world at the bottom, besides dryness and dirt, though it be but a yard and half under ground, it shall pass however for wondrous deep, upon no wiser a reason than because it is wondrous dark. — Jonathan Swift

Mike Rondeau, a tall drink of a man sloshed into a squat glass, with a belt that could double as a lasso and a volume of ambitious lies that he called his life, came in the door and laughed. — Daniel Woodrell

America has never forgotten - and never will forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path. — Bernard Baruch

I always have a quote for any occasion...It saves the effort of original thinking. — Gerry Burnie

These ... xistential qualms you suffer, they just mean you're truly human. — David Mitchell

Ah, lady! it is hardly what you thought it, This life of luxury and social power; You gave yourself as principal, and bought it, But God extracts the interest hour by hour. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau. — Donald Hall

I see through my eyes, not with them. — William Blake

I would love to have my own lingerie line. — Kate Upton

Marla cursed--though her profanities we less destructive than Rondeau's, they were more heartfelt. — Tim Pratt

Patient dedication to the ordinary and often tedious disciplines of corporate and family worship, teaching, prayer, modeling, and mentoring have been eroded by successive waves of enthusiasm. — Michael S. Horton

Ive realized that even more that what is beautiful about the accordion is to play with a single finger sometimes, with a very pure, very pointed sound that gives a lot of poetry and emotion. — Richard Galliano