Thimothee Atouba Quotes & Sayings

Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass. — Muhammad Iqbal

I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop. — Bohumil Hrabal

He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression. He who seeks self-expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance. — Moshe Safdie

There's an arrest warrant out for her. Did you even consider taking her to the Commander?"
"No."
"Why not?" Valek didn't try to hide his disbelief. "Killing isn't the only solution to a problem. Or has that been yourformula?"
" My formula! Excuse me, Mr. Assassin, while I laugh as I remember my history lessons on how to deal with a tyrannical monarch by killing him and his family."
Valek flashed me a dangerous look. — Maria V. Snyder

My name can raise money on a small-budget film. — Samantha Morton

They weren't a couple. They were two people making do. — Richard House

My neighbour Evangeline Smythe is going to have twins in June. She is none too happy about it, so I am going to ask her to give one of them to me — Mary Ann Shaffer

Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God. No one is excepted, not [even] the infant. — Ambrose

If you need somebody to dig up rocks eight hours a day underwater, call me. — Leigh Newman

We've learned over the years that if we wanted we could write anything that just felt good or sounded good and it didn't necessarily have to have any particular meaning to us. As odd as it seemed to us, reviewers would take it upon themselves to interject their own meanings on our lyrics. Sometimes we sit and read other people's interpretations of our lyrics and think, 'Hey, that's pretty good.' If we liked it, we would keep our mouths shut and just accept the credit as if it was what we meant all along. — John Lennon

Ritual is to the internal sciences what experiment is to the external sciences. — Timothy Leary

The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong. — Alexander Pope

Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom of speech. — Emily Robison

I'd like to be a 5-10, 205-pound running back. I think it's natural for big guys to want to be a little faster. — Antonio Gates

Although I enjoyed and respected Kipling, Poe, Butler, Thackeray and Henley, I saved my young and loyal passion for Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson and W.E.B. Du Bois' "Litany at Atlanta." But it was Shakespeare who said, "When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes." It was a state with which I felt myself most familiar. — Maya Angelou