Tableaux Parisiens Quotes & Sayings

For some of us life always comes C.O.D. — Virginia Graham

The Apple Pie Hubbub was a significant novel for me, because that's when I first started using verbs. — Steve Martin

At least when you're young you're also stupid. — Douglas Coupland

Make us your slaves, but feed us. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Don't let what's happened spoil your life; it doesn't have to. If help is offered, take it if you want it. But in the end, find the strength to take hold of your own life and make what you want of it. Even the bad dreams fade in time. — P.D. James

I think I have written the things I was put on Earth to write. — Michel Faber

Life was short, so grab it by the balls and run. — Jill Shalvis

We're all living in a parallel universe of what the world used to be. — Lauren DeStefano

Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden. — T. S. Eliot

Writings may be compared to wine. Sense is the strength, but wit the flavor. — Laurence Sterne

Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like a bauble from hand to hand, and uses it to embody any caprice of thought that is uppermost in his mind. The remotest spaces of nature are visited, and the farthest sundered things are brought together, by subtle spiritual connection. We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bombino's a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he's definitely the Grand Poobah. I don't think the other guys are that much younger than him, but he definitely feels like the wise man; you just sort of get that sense when you're around him. He doesn't say that much but he's humble and well-respected. — Dan Auerbach

My #1 rule is write like no one is ever going to read it. Why? Because it gives you permission to be as audacious as you want. — Tosca Lee

Metaphysics is the study of the most general nature and basic structure of reality, and therefore the concepts of metaphysics, concepts like time, space, identity, resemblance, substance, property, fact, event, composition, possibility, etc., are the most fundamental concepts. Thus metaphysics is the most fundamental theoretical discipline. — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness. — Nathaniel Branden