Wodecq Quotes & Sayings

You can kill a thousand; you can bring an end to life; you cannot kill an idea. — Shimon Peres

That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know. — John Ruskin

The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless. — Ernst Mach

Maybe it is nothingness that is real and our entire dream is nonexistent, but in that case we feel that these phrases of music, and these notions that exist in relation to our dream, must also be nothing. We will perish, but we have for hostages these divine captives who will follow us and share our fate. And death in their company is less bitter, less inglorious, perhaps less probable. — Marcel Proust

You own me, Sonya, own every fucking part of me, and that will never change. — Jenika Snow

Lydia was the kind of friend whom people referred to as a 'party favor'
always fun to be around but she doesn't have any patience for suffering unless it's her own. — Chelsea Handler

You may be the owner of my efforts results but you will never be able to be the owner of my mind. — Maliheh Sadat Razavi

A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army. — Orson Welles

Life is a closed loop control system. You take inputs from your environment, from what you read, from your social interactions and from your family and it goes as a feedback into your system, modifying you a little every day. Those who are obstinate are like an open loop control system where nothing affects them. It isn't really good to remain in an open loop for not only will you be isolated, but also miss out important things in life. It isn't too wise either to let that feedback system be so strong that you forget your own ideals and principles. A balance is necessary. — Neelam Saxena Chandra

Good pitchers, after a tough outing, bounce back. Real good pitchers don't let too many poor games get in there. — Don Cooper

I remember when we were in the World Cup in Australia and I had to win the singles against Tony Payne, best of seven legs, to win it. I was 2-0 down but ended up beating him 4-2. — Eric Bristow

Poetry
makes nothing happen.
It survives
in the valley of its saying. — Maxine Kumin