Tiroirs Coulissants Quotes & Sayings

Her suspense was terrible. — Thomas Hardy

Speech is how we convey our thoughts. Literature is how we convey our civilization." Captain Hank Bracker — Hank Bracker

The rule of the people has the fairest name of all, equality (isonomia), and does none of the things that a monarch does. The lot determines offices, power is held accountable, and deliberation is conducted in public. — Herodotus

There was once a man, Harry, called the steppenwolf. He went on two legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but nevertheless he was in reality a wolf of the steppes. He had learned a good deal of all that people of a good intelligence can, and was a fairly clever fellow. What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life. — Hermann Hesse

The art of becoming 'rich', in the common sense, is not absolutely nor finally the art of accumulating much money for ourselves, but also of contriving that our neighbour shall have less. In accurate terms, it is 'the art of establishing the maximum inequality in your own favour'. — John Ruskin

Will you see Pulp again? Who knows. I'm not stoking those particular rumours. — Jarvis Cocker

What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet. — John Keats

One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer. — Wole Soyinka

Children and even adults, when they like certain athletes, they can tell you about their batting average, about where they came from. — Jamie Farr

I mix up all styles on my albums because that is what music is about now. — David Guetta

Into the darkness of those admissions comes the fire of new truth: though I am not good enough, Christ was good enough for me. — Tullian Tchividjian

and volunteering in the community. Mind, body, and spirit, the cadets were told. Over and — Louise Penny

Past and future is determined by what is now ... right now! This is why the present is a gift; the only one that ultimately matters most. — T.F. Hodge

It's unbecoming," she agreed. "A perfect word for my new life. Unbecoming. I who have always been unbecoming am becoming un. — Gregory Maguire