Sylvain Mirochnikoff Quotes & Sayings

Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment instead. It is such a willingness to live with bewilderment that characterizes the true wise man. — Richard Rohr

Her constant orders for beheading are shocking to those modern critics of children's literature who feel that juvenile fiction should be free of all violence and especially violence with Freudian undertones. Even the Oz books of L. Frank Baum, so singularly free of the horrors to be found in Grimm and Andersen, contain many scenes of decapitation. As far as I know, there have been no empirical studies of how children react to such scenes and what harm if any is done to their psyche. My guess is that the normal child finds it all very amusing and is not damaged in the least, but that books like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz should not be allowed to circulate indiscriminately among adults who are undergoing analysis. — Martin Gardner

The huge modern heresy is to alter the human soul to fit modern social conditions, instead of altering modern social conditions to fit the human soul. — G.K. Chesterton

Faygo's like a Detroit thing, and you can't really find it everywhere, but the difference between Faygo Creme Soda and other cream sodas is that it's foamy. Faygo Creme Soda is almost like Sprite, but it's cream soda, so that's ill! — Danny Brown

How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We must realize that our destiny is strongly linked to the destiny of the poorest on this planet. — Hillary Clinton

Only Spartan women give birth to real men. — Gorgo, Queen Of Sparta

There's a certain amount of pain and heartache that goes with being the mother of a star and that all the mothers experience. It's not being with them as much as you like. — Georgia Holt

I want you with me, my dearest. Not just as a friend, though also as that. I want you as my wife. I want to know that we share our lives and cares, we share our health and ill, and we share our happiness and sorrow. — Aleksandra Layland

My main job is to live with deep contentment, joy, and confidence in my everyday experience of life with God. Everything else is job number two. — John Ortberg

Sarsaparilla boiled for one of Sybil's tonics, overpowering the aroma of the roasting meat. Cora — Colson Whitehead

Driving is something really special for me. Even women doesn't excite me as much as racing cars! I guess I'm just becoming old. — Michele Alboreto