Abattoirs A Poulets Quotes

#1. Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

Samuel Johnson

#2. Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.

Johann Arndt

#3. O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#4. I think there's a danger of becoming too familiar with things, isn't there? That you kind of, when you're used to seeing the same things every day, you see those things come what may, and you don't see maybe the interesting things just slightly out of view behind them.

Steven Hall

#5. Do not underrate others, do not underrate yourself, and do not underrate anything! Do not overrate others, do not overrate yourself, and do not overrate anything!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean.

Laurence J. Peter

#7. I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like.

Stanley Crouch

#8. After the rain cometh the fair weather.

Aesop

#9. For other people, love is like some rare orchid that can only grow in one place under a certain set of conditions. For me it's like bindweed. It grows with no encouragement at all, under any conditions, and just strangles everything else.

Scarlett Thomas

#10. I think always my interest in making movies is to have something really technical mixed with something that was not so formal ... something free.

Michel Gondry

#11. All your
emotions were so intense - your anger like daggers, your unhappiness a poisoned well. Even
your love had such sharp corners and dark alleys.

Sherry Thomas

#12. Madlen: 'It's a relief to me, Lady Queen, that in your own pain, you take no interest in hurting yourself.'
Bitterblue: 'Why would I? Why should I? It's foolish. I would like to kick the people who do it.'
Madlen: 'That would, perhaps, be redundant, Lady Queen.

Kristin Cashore

#13. Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

George Jean Nathan