Academie Du Quotes

#1. What if Americans were all judged by the actions of the Bush administration and people did not know the truth? That America is full of people who are, at present, poorly represented and poorly catered to by the media.

Henry Rollins

#2. The practice of love can be expressed in one sentence: 'Do not harm others.'

Dalai Lama

#3. I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.

Ralph Thomas Walker

#4. In the tiny torn up pieces of his mind he's irresistible too.

Elvis Costello

#5. The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.

Frank Miller

#6. The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.

Henry L. Stimson

#7. She had passed the in-for-a-penny-in-for-a-pound road sign a long time ago. Hell, she was cruising the neighborhood streets of tonnage by now. Limping backward, she raised her middle finger to the Fae King.

Thea Harrison

#8. Nick looked vaguely homicidal, but that was sort of his default expression.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#9. Instead of feeling sexy and tingly, it felt useless, like recycling plastics or registering to vote.

Douglas Coupland

#10. They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all the grace and coordination of a deck-chair.

Terry Pratchett

#11. I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.

Kathleen Norris