Valmonde Louisiana Quotes & Sayings

If everything I possessed, vanished, suddenly,
I'd be sorry.
But I value things unpossessed.
The wind, and trees, and sky and kind thoughts, much more. — Dorothy Hartley

Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a display that is less an evidence of grief than a vulgar travesty of those pompous obsequies where no grief is. — Joyce Cary

We do need to realize, though, that it is the quality of our love that determines the quality of this life. — Emanuel Swedenborg

Our neighbours had happy childhoods to a man and still feel angry. Perhaps they resent never having had a chance to become perverse ... — J.G. Ballard

I'm always on a red carpet ... the other day I thought, this ain't bad. You can meet people on it. — Al Pacino

I write because I'm in love with language; because I like working for myself, inside my head; and because it's the only way I know to make a stab at answering the never-ending questions of the heart that arise simply from the everyday living of our lives. — Julia Glass

Peace cannot he imposed by politicians or Churches. Peace has to grow within each person if it is to endure. Our society can only be healed when each person in it is healed. — Jean Vanier

The status quo sucks. — George Carlin

My life is parallel to a horse race. They have blinders on to keep them from being distracted in the race and keep them focused on winning the race. That's kind of like my life. Focus on the goal, not the things coming at me from the side. — Reggie Bush

It has been possible to trace historically back to a very early age the taxes which were imposed on medicines, spices and similar substances in German towns. Thus, for instance, one finds that in the year 1500, thirteen, in 1540, thirty-eight, and in 1708, already one hundred and twenty vegetable oils are mentioned. — Otto Wallach

When you work in form, be it a sonnet or villanelle or whatever, the form is there and you have to fill it. And you have to find how to make that form say what you want to say. But what you find, always
I think any poet who's worked in form will agree with me
is that the form leads you to what you want to say. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The chicken that we eat is chock-full of feminine hormones. So, when men eat these chickens, they deviate from themselves as men. — Evo Morales

Some people live to be seventy, sometimes eighty years old believing there is always something new just around the corner, as they say; in the end they practically have to be killed or at least reduced to a state of serious incapacity to get them to see reason. — Michel Houellebecq

There is nothing so perfect as pinball and a pint at 11 a.m. — Tom Hodgkinson