Andrei Makine Quotes

#1. The life these words speak of is not worth the ink they are written in ... He now knows that the only words worth writing down arise when language is impossible.

Andrei Makine

#2. All my wife and I do is fight about sex. The other night, we really had it out. Well, I'll put it this way - I had it out.

Rodney Dangerfield

#3. This sacrifice, which saved his life, reminded him again that the evil of this world could be put to rout by the will of a single human being.

Andrei Makine

#4. When you allow yourself to be unpredictable, you step from the known into the unknown, where anything is possible

Deepak Chopra

#5. She studies to be equal in a world that is no longer surprised at anything

Andrei Makine

#6. In war the most testing moments are those of peace , for a dead man lying in the grass makes the living see the world as it would be, but for their folly.

Andrei Makine

#7. ...Will you not join me in a cup of cocoa? The kettle boils."

Mr Sharnall's face fell.

"You ought to have been an old woman," he said; "only old women drink cocoa. Well, I don't mind if I do; any port in a storm.

John Meade Falkner

#8. If there is chemistry, and the mind and body are working as one, it's nirvana. It's like a well-written symphony or, better yet, perfect... sheet music."
"Sheet music?"
"Yeah, music between the sheets.

Ann Lister

#9. You have a choice. Take hold of your future or the past will take it for you.

Pepper D. Basham

#10. I dance a lot and I run and do yoga and play field hockey and tennis. I like to be active. I don't always have time for that stuff, but I do always feel better afterward.

Emma Watson

#11. The loudspeaker on the wall crackles, hisses, and suddenly announces, in astonishingly soothing tones, that a train is going to be delayed. An ocean swell of sighs ripples through the waiting room.

Andrei Makine

#12. He had already come to see human lives as one single communal life and it was perhaps this perception that gave him hope.

Andrei Makine

#13. Volsky once more had the feeling that the bond between them was indifferent to the demise of bodies.

Andrei Makine

#14. ( ... ) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival.

Andrei Makine

#15. He should have told Vlad that in the old days a collection of poems could change your life, but a single poem could also cost the life of its author.

Andrei Makine

#16. An exile's only country is his country's literature.

Andrei Makine

#17. The Russians and the Chinese have been absolutely clear they don't want to see Iran with a nuclear weapon.

Hillary Clinton

#18. The though revives in him the oldest memory of his life. A child sees a door closing: without knowing who it is that has just left, he senses it is someone he loves with all his tiny, still mute being.

Andrei Makine

#19. This was sending me out so much further than I had ever expected: a place beyond strength.

Bret Easton Ellis

#20. Men can be pitiless towards a woman whose body has eluded them, particularly if this is thanks to their own cowardice.

Andrei Makine

#21. They did not speak, surprised to see how simple, almost poor, happiness could be, yes, materially poor and yet so abundant.

Andrei Makine

#22. To appear unambitious amongst the ambitious is to invite loathing or fear. To be in the game, but not playing with intent to win, is to be the enemy.

Josephine Hart

#23. Historians rewrite the truth every day. What interests us is the truth that gets the reader to reach for his wallet

Andrei Makine

#24. I have just awoken, having dreamed of music. The final chord fades away within me while I try to focus on individuals amid the living, breathing mass packed into this vast waiting room, in this mixture of sleep and weariness.

Andrei Makine

#25. Their life will be made of the same stuff as this spring afternoon.

Andrei Makine

#26. The fatal mistake we make is looking for a paradise that endures ... This obsession with what lasts causes us to overlook many a fleeting paradise.

Andrei Makine

#27. I'm quite proud of some of the films I've done, but less for the acting than for the fact that they're unpretentious and entertaining. I'm proud of having made unpretentious choices.

Hugh Grant

#28. Once again, without explaining anything, they understood that they must leave. Go away before this world woke up and continued with a life from which they were forever excluded.

Andrei Makine

#29. Love is in essence subversive.

Andrei Makine

#30. Their own life together was like a subtle watercolor sketch, invisible to other people. They gave the world what it required of them and for the rest of the time were content to be forgotten.

Andrei Makine

#31. If God was small enough for you to completely understand him, he wouldn't be big enough for you to completely trust him.

Rick Warren

#32. Well, the good news is that there's quite a lot of cynicism about major labels within radio and the press. I think they have been largely disillusioned by the manner in which the record companies have developed music.

Mick Hucknall

#33. The bird that hath been limed in a bush, with trembling wings misdoubteth every bush.

William Shakespeare