Truffaut Fourqueux Quotes & Sayings

We look at some people as if they were special, gifted, divine. Nobody is special and gifted and divine.
No more than you are, no more than I am. The only difference, the very only one,
is that they have begun to understand what they really are and have begun to practice it. — Richard Bach

If you do not intend to kill anybody, if you make every effort to not kill and injure anybody, that's all you really can do. You can't stop somebody from walking into a situation, and we really can't be too overly preoccupied with this. — Paul Watson

We all have a choice. We all have a say. We are spectators in life or we get in and play. Whichever we choose, how we handle lifes game, the choices are ours no one else is to blame. — Tom Krause

I started doing stand-up at the age of 20. This was back in 1976, around the time (coincidence?) that the first comedy clubs were starting. The young comedians of today gasp when I tell them how many shows I did that first year: 500. Five nights a week. — Emo Philips

Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end. — C.S. Lewis

I must admit that outside the university, it is difficult to be a pure mathematician. No one in my family understands what I do. My neighbors wonder why I spend all my time in my study scribbling with pencil on a yellow pad of paper instead of going outside to mow the lawn. — Isadore Singer

When I stopped eating meat, I fell in love with East Indian food - there's so much selection, and they use the most beautiful spices. — Laura Mennell

I like change, and I like being in the middle of change. — Gary William Flake

Ignorance ain't not knowin' stuff; ignorance is knowin' stuff that AIN'T TRUE. — Josh Billings

Being broke didn't seem so awful as it had yesterday, being broke but being at peace with the world.
("Don't Wait Up For Me Tonight") — Cornell Woolrich

Also, whenever you have direct speech, and I don't quite know why, but it always gets better in English. Dialogue, the flow of dialogue, English just has a better way with it. — Daniel Kehlmann

Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world. — John Ashcroft

I'm optimistic that we are actually seeing the opportunity of a generation being created in this. — Peter Mandelson