Schoolmeester Colette Quotes & Sayings

Nice said Paul staring transfixed at Fran's delicate and extreme gaze, like that of a skeleton with eyeballs, or a person with their face peeled off. — Tao Lin

That's why we have that 'JUDGEMENT BOX' by the door. You'll find it at each event. It's visibly empty, but emotionally full. If we leave our judgement at the door, we're less likely to be shocked by someone's actions or words," Charlee explained. — Jill Hannah Anderson

Nobody, who looks at a shard of flint lying beneath a rock ledge, or who finds a splintered log by the side of the road would ever find magic in their solitude. But in the right circumstances, if you bring them together, you can start a fire that consumes the world. — Jodi Picoult

Learn to listen to subtle cues from your spirit instead of the barrage coming from your brain. — David Brazzeal

I write every morning. Two hours. Then I take a break and become my own secretary for a few hours. If I am "hot" I write in the afternoon and at night too. — John Fante

That perhaps is your task
to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes your way fearlessly and saturate it completely so that your poem is a whole, not a fragment; to re-think human life into poetry and so give us tragedy again and comedy by means of characters not spun out at length in the novelist's way, but condensed and synthesized in the poet's way
that is what we look to you to do now. — Virginia Woolf

The earl could have made Napoleon comfortable in a room sporting a guillotine. — Melissa Lynne Blue

Who sail on stormy seas;
And that's the way I get my bread
A trifle, if you please. — Lewis Carroll

I go to a lot of museums, I read a ton of poetry - anything that's a creative expression of oneself, I find really inspiring. — Rachelle Lefevre

You can't observe historical events; you can't question historical actors; you can't even know most of what has not been written about. What has been written about therefore takes on an importance that may be spurious. A few lines in a memoir, a snatch of recorded conversation, a letter fortuitously preserved, an event noted in a diary: all become luminous with significance - even though they are merely the bits that have floated to the surface. The historian clings to them, while, somewhere below, the huge submerged wreck of the past sinks silently out of sight. — Louis Menand

Guilt didn't put any butter on the bread of life. — Leonore Fleischer

I freely admit that the remembrance of David Hume was the very thing that many years ago first interrupted my dogmatic slumber and gave a completely different direction to my researches in the field of speculative philosophy. — Immanuel Kant

Love thou rose, yet leave it on its stem. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Eli had learned long ago that you can stare right at something and not see what lies beneath the surface. — Jodi Picoult

I blame the lentils. — Beth Fantaskey