Souple Quotes & Sayings

We shake hands and part good comrades. But I have to get out of here, good fellows or no good fellows. Too much fellow feeling makes me nervous, to tell the truth. — Walker Percy

I have to try hard - but I do succeed - to not burst out laughing when he compares my breasts to a perfectly cooked creme brulee - 'souple mais ferme. — Frances Gendlin

To be human is to be aware of the passage of time; no concept lies closer to the core of our consciousness. — Dan Falk

Because I love narrative but am more lyrically inclined, I've learned that if I freight titles with narrative information (the who, what, when, where, why of the poem), I can get to my main interest, which is the language, and where it wants to take me. If I can establish the poem's occasion in the title, then so much the better for my freedom to associate. — Anna Journey

As life goes on, you will join other bands, some through friendship, some through romance, some through neighborhoods, school, an army. Maybe you will all dress the same, or laugh at your own private vocabulary. Maybe you will flop on couches backstage, or share a boardroom table, or crowd around a galley inside a ship. But in each band you join, you will play a distinct part, and it will affect you as much as you affect it. — Mitch Albom

A "take" is an opportunity to fail ... and we think that we have to get it right all the time. — Dustin Hoffman

Color and I are one. I am a painter. — Paul Klee

Lords are gold and knights steel, but two links can't make a chain. You also need silver and iron and lead, tin and copper and bronze and all the rest, and those are farmers and smiths and merchants and the like. A chain needs all sorts of metals, and a land needs all sorts of people. — George R R Martin

It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline. — Alfred Jodl