Arras Quotes

#1. Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs.

Plutarch

#2. He held his hat in his hand; there was no disorder in his clothing; his coat was carefully buttoned: he was very pale, and he trembled slightly; his hair, which had still been gray on his arrival in Arras, was now entirely white: it had turned white during the hour he had sat there.

Victor Hugo

#3. Living is one constant and perpetual instant when the arras-veil before what-is-to-be hangs docile and even glad to the lightest naked thrust if we had dared, were brave enough (not wise enough: no wisdom needed here) to make the rending gash.

William Faulkner

#4. Surely if men are sufficient masters of things to build a howitzer
they ought to know better than to destroy each other with it.
- Stewart Gore-Browne, from Arras, 1916.

Christina Lamb

#5. Sing, Marie of Arras. Do not forget, Marie of Arras.

Zoe Oldenbourg

#6. Don't let a lack of big company names on your resume get you down, but also, don't let it feed a Silicon Valley ego. Oftentimes, the best candidates come from startups or smaller companies. It shows they are open to risk and can keep up with the long hours and occasional harsh demands.

Brit Morin

#7. Only everybody-all-a t-once can change the current chaos.

Adi Da

#8. The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not reach Texas until after the end of the Civil War almost two years later.

Corrine Brown

#9. I'm acting when I serve as a hostess, when I run my wig business. I was born to act, and life itself is the greatest part.

Eva Gabor

#10. One need not be a chamber to be haunted.

Emily Dickinson

#11. From my experience with God, and what I read from his Holy Book. I sometimes think that he is more interested in our discomfort than in our comfort.

Sunday Adelaja

#12. I think that older lesbians definitely didn't take care of themselves. They didn't exercise. But the younger lesbians, they're very different. They go to the gym. They manage their eating. They're much more fashion-conscious.

Jackie Warner

#13. Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.

Samuel Johnson

#14. Want a better job right this second? Choose your attitude and adjust your expectations.

Jon Acuff

#15. There are a lot of times where actors can be a little precious sometimes, and then it's difficult to put them in a situation where there is true hardship.

Joel Silver

#16. In general, generalization is to lie, to tell lies.

B.S. Johnson

#17. When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Mark Twain

#18. God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity, he does.

J.G. Holland