Rouxinol Quotes & Sayings

We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. — Maurice Sendak

I didn't want murder. It's all gone wrong. — Stanley Kubrick

Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime. — Rachel Cusk

When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour in improving themselves, they set a proportionate value on their own thoughts, and wish to enforce them by efficacious expressions; speech becomes embodied and permanent; different modes and phrases are compared, and the best obtains an establishment. By degrees one age improves upon another. — Samuel Johnson

Up here on the Ice each of us is singular, isolate, I as cut off from those like me, from my society, and its rules, as he from his. — Ursula K. Le Guin

It is the garden of peace you seek, but it is not a tangible place that exists in the world - it is within. Go there, within. — Bryant McGill

The only thing I miss from the sitcom format is that immediate gratification of when you're, if we're talking about comedy, of the live audience. — Ray Romano

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat. — Jules Renard

The islands are very quiet. One sees them lying about, clothed in their dark garments of leaves, in a great hush of silver and azure, where the sea without murmurs meets the sky in a ring of magic stillness. A sort of smiling somnolence broods over them; the very voices of their people are soft and subdued, as if afraid to break some protecting spell.
Perhaps this was the very spell which had enchanted Heyst in the early days. — Joseph Conrad