Rousseaus Confessions Quotes & Sayings

I remembered the dim winter light, the smell of damp earth and leaves, the eeriness that always attaches to a place once settled and civilized, but now reclaimed by the wilderness. — Lisa Tuttle

I have come with this message: since our gods and our aspirations are no longer anything but scientific, why shouldn't our loves be so too? — Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life. — Alan Dershowitz

Polanski's 'Chinatown' is a film that I have purposefully and consciously imitated, but 'Vertigo' is one that has got into my bloodstream. Every time I reappraise things that I've done, the influence is there, time and time again. — Allen Coulter

Is she not beautiful? Is she not powerful? Is she not regal? Is she not YOU? — Beth Fantaskey

As long as I've been playing, they never say I done anything. They always say that some white guy did it. — Miles Davis

When there is a genuine vision (as opposed to the all-too-familiar "vision statement"), people excel and learn, not because they are told to, but because they want to. But many leaders have personal visions that never get translated into shared visions that galvanize an organization. All too often, a company's shared vision — Peter M. Senge

Police are inevitably corrupted ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available. — Frank Herbert

Tug on anything in nature and you will find it connected to everything else. — John Muir

At school I was easily misled, but that's childhood. I remember I used to shoplift tins of Airfix paint and football badges. — Philip Glenister

I've lived a charmed life. I married the only girl I ever loved and did the only job I ever loved. — Hank Stram