Ariane's Quotes

#1. Added. Apparently a mere two-cab caravan was not enough to trigger Ariane's anxieties, and so the one carrying

Neal Stephenson

#2. I was immediately swept up in Ariane's story. Equal parts thrill-ride and love story, The Rules is intense and emotional. This book stays with you long after you finish.

Sophie Jordan

#3. It might have been my human side clamoring for blood, or my alien side looking for a chance to exercise strategic dominance over a lesser life form. Either way, I was going to win.

Stacey Kade

#4. I am in the present and only the present matters to me

Ariane Mnouchkine

#5. So what did it matter where she came from? Who-or what-her parents were? Everyone's family was messed up in some way including my own. And she was still the same Ariane. - Zane, page 400

Stacey Kade

#6. What is your name?" Ariane asked him. The kid put up his deflector screens and said, "Einstein." Silence then. When no one laughed, he stood straighter and drifted closer.

Neal Stephenson

#7. Lies are for those whose truths are not strong enough." --Ariane

Michelle West

#8. Theatre is not supposed to represent psychology but passions, which is totally different. Its role is to represent the soul's different emotional states, and those of the mind, the world history.

Ariane Mnouchkine

#9. On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure.

Andy Hargreaves

#10. It rewrites the contract, I'd read somewhere. Your self's no longer central. This thing comes out of you and drags half your soul along after it like a blanket.

Glen Duncan

#11. At some point in the next century the number of invented languages will probably overtake the number of surviving natural languages.

Cullen Murphy

#12. No one asks public men to be strictly moral, but they must seem to be well-behaved.

Storm Jameson

#13. I hate the word 'production'. It's a ceremony, a ritual - you should go out of the theatre more human than when you went in.

Ariane Mnouchkine

#14. THEOLOGY IS THE study of God and his ways. For all we know, dung beetles may study man and his ways and call it humanology. If so, we would probably be more touched and amused than irritated. One hopes that God feels likewise.

Frederick Buechner

#15. Big companies have trouble with innovation. Innovation is about bad ideas, or ideas that look like bad ideas. That's the fundamental thing.

Ben Horowitz

#16. You are more than someone's experiment, more than Dr. Jacobs' brain child," he whispered fiercely. "You have a right to want things for yourself, Ariane, to see yourself as a person. How do I get you to believe that?

Stacey Kade

#17. There's probably no God. So stop worrying and enjoy your life.

Ariane Sherine

#18. I am what I am," Ty said. "And what is that?" Ariane asked. "A bartender. Always happy to make new acquaintances." He nodded at Bard. "Or to provide guests with drinks. Anyone thirsty?

Neal Stephenson

#19. Beyond Stone Ring Keep's high walls, the wind wailed of coming winter. Ariane didn't hear the mournful cry. She heard nothing but echoes

Elizabeth Lowell

#20. May the Lord grant you tender kind heart.

Lailah Gifty Akita