Xavier Laflamme Quotes & Sayings

I get irritated when people counsel me on what I should do with my life, or tell me I should get married, or tell me what I should do. I think people have their role models for happiness and it helps if others fit into that. — Anjelica Huston

Nothing is so much coveted by a young man as the reputation of being a genius; and many seem to feel that the want of patience for laborious application and deep research is such a mark of genius as cannot be mistaken: while a real genius, like Sir Isaac Newton, with great modesty says, that the great and only difference between his mind and the minds of others consisted solely in his having more patience. — John Todd

The soul throbs like the sea for a larger life. No thought which I have ever had has satisfied my soul. — Richard Jefferies

I survived turning 60, I was not thrilled to turn 61, I was less thrilled to turn 62, I didn't much like being 63, I loathed being 64, and I will hate being 65. I don't let on about such things in person; in person, I am cheerful and Pollyanna-ish. But the honest truth is that it's sad to be over 60. — Nora Ephron

she wore so many brooches and necklaces and earrings that she jingled and jangled just like a brass band. — P.L. Travers

We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies. — Zooey Deschanel

We've been taught a woman's body will cause men to sin. We're told that if a woman shows too much of her body men will do stupid things. Let's be clear: a woman's body is not dangerous to you. Her body will not cause you harm. It will not make you do stupid things. If you do stupid things it is because you chose to do stupid things. — Nate Pyle

There is clearly a constituency that appreciates the message that Google is sending, that it finds the Chinese government's attitude to the Internet and censorship unacceptable. — Rebecca MacKinnon

Regardless of Bobby's recent hate-filled rantings, which I abhor, he is nonetheless one of the greatest chessplayers of all time. — Frank Brady

Hit them. Fight them. They are cursed; they are evil — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women. — George Bernard Shaw

The gods destroy the heroes with a sudden blow, but they grind us mediocrities for weary, weary years. — Robertson Davies

Child care is an invisible part of the economy. — Ellen Galinsky