Thibaudet Ravel Quotes & Sayings

No, no, I don't want that."
"I didn't ask. — Cherise Sinclair

As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea. — Jo Nesbo

Most learning problems exist not within the child but in the inadequacy of the system to find a way to teach them. — Gay Su Pinnell

I can feel things - tap into emotions. When I meet a new person, I know their life straight away. I suppose you could call it a special intuition, but it's my number one quality, and I'm always 99.9 percent right. If I don't like someone, it always turns out to be for a good reason. — Suzi Quatro

When you are trying to understand the world, it is unwise to assume that you occupy a privileged position in it. — Jim Holt

We are the Sun with all the different
kinds of Light. — Rumi

I may ... pass for being a relatively successful man. People occasionally stare at me in the streets-that's fame. I can fairly easily earn enough to qualify for admission to the higher slopes of the Inland Revenue-that's success. Furnished with money and a little fame ... [I] may partake of trendy diversions-that's pleasure. It might happen once in a while that something I said or wrote ... represented a serious impact on our time-that's fulfillment. Yet I say to you, and I beg you to believe me, multiply these tiny triumphs by a million, add them all together, and they are nothing-less than nothing, a positive impediment-measured against one draught of that living water Christ offers to the spiritually thirsty.8 — Richard D. Phillips

Surprisingly, I felt no anger towards him. He was just Man. Man in his basic, rudimentary state, easily moved by powerful emotions like love, lust, anger, greed, and fear, but totally dumb to the finer, acquired emotions like pity, mercy, humour, and justice. — Helon Habila

In the real world anything can happen. It's like stepping onto an icy surface - you have to adjust your footing or you'll slip and fall. — Katie Kacvinsky

An endless task, the cataloguing of reality. We accumulate facts, we discuss them, but with every line that is written, with every statement that is made, one has the feeling of incompleteness. — Frantz Fanon

False humility is the pride of not being proud, real humility is without the consciousness that pride exists. — Michael Bassey Johnson

That imperial guard which poets and humanists mount in relay around any great memory. — Marguerite Yourcenar

I'm sure that a veiled arabian woman's exposed toes contains more sex appeal than a western pin-up's total nudity. — Daniel White

We never thought some guy would deliberately fill our hearts with brown sugar and then pour hot water all over it. — Terry McMillan