Whetehr Quotes & Sayings

Usually, the murmur that rises up from Paris by day is the city talking; in the night it is the city breathing; but here it is the city singing. Listen, then, to this chorus of bell-towers - diffuse over the whole the murmur of half a million people - the eternal lament of the river - the endless sighing of the wind - the grave and distant quartet of the four forests placed upon the hills, in the distance, like immense organpipes - extinguish to a half light all in the central chime that would otherwise be too harsh or too shrill; and then say whetehr you know of anything in the world more rich, more joyous, more golden, more dazzling, than this tumult of bells and chimes - this furnace of music - these thousands of brazen voices, all singing together in flutes of stone three hundred feet high, than this city which is but one orchestra - this symphony which roars like a tempest. — Victor Hugo

I am too much of a control freak to be a drinker. — Emilia Fox

I'm never more miserable than when I write, and never more happy than having finished and having it sitting in front of me. — Cary Fukunaga

Snails mate faster than Farnsworths."
Georgie gave her a chastening look. "Eliza."
"Well, it's true. I've watched."
"You've spied on Sir Roland?"
"No, I've spied on snails. — Tessa Dare

I don't need to know how tough I am to know how tough I am. — Roddy Piper

Well, you have the right to make a sacrifice of yourself, but I'll be damned if I'll let you sacrifice me! — Georgette Heyer

They're soul mates. She has about as much brain as a retarded billiards ball, and he approximately the same. — P.G. Wodehouse