Vallage Quotes & Sayings

I was born in a country of brooks and rivers, in a corner of Champagne, called Le Vallage for the great number of its valleys. The most beautiful of its places for me was the hollow of a valley by the side of fresh water, in the shade of willows ... My pleasure still is to follow the stream, to walk along its banks in the right direction, in the direction of the flowing water, the water that leads life towards the next village ... Dreaming beside the river, I gave my imagination to the water, the green, clear water, the water that makes the meadows green ... The stream doesn't have to be ours; the water doesn't have to be ours. The anonymous water knows all my secrets. And the same memory issues from every spring. — Gaston Bachelard

Although erotica authors are being targeted, this is an issue that should concern all indie authors. It affects indies disproportionately because indies are the ones pushing the boundaries of fiction. Indies are the ones out there publishing without the (fading) protective patina of a "traditional publisher" to lend them legitimacy. We indies only have each other. — Mark Coker

You take the best ingredients - the best cocoa beans - and you process them in the best traditional way, and you have the best chocolate. — Alain Ducasse

Landscapes or still-lifes I paint in between the abstract works; they constitute about one-tenth of my production. On the one hand they are useful, because I like to work from nature - although I do use a photograph - because I think that any detail from nature has a logic I would like to see in abstraction as well. — Gerhard Richter

What I'm constantly striving for in my prose is clarity. So that, ideally, the writing will become so transparent that the reader will forget that the medium of communication is language. — Jonathan Lethem

If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything. — Tom Rath

Most of us have days or weeks or months so awful, we wish we'd never been born. — Gayle Forman

May you find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith ... — Rainer Maria Rilke

Success is processional. It's the result of a series of small disciplines that lead us into habitual patterns of success that no longer require consistent will or effort. — Tony Robbins

Its better to get hurt now than to get hurt later. — Mohammed Suleman Khan

The cuisine, it is all about putting generosity before rigour and pleasure before lucidity. — Pierre Gagnaire