Arrondissements Quotes

#1. Paris's neighborhoods, the arrondissements, are organized like a twist. They spiral from the river like toilet water flushing in reverse and erupting out of the bowl - a corkscrew or what have you, a flattened pig's tail, a whorling braid notched one to 20.

Rosecrans Baldwin

#2. Which knew and understood and did not shy away from the understanding that there would be pain. Which could accept shattering, could reassemble itself, could stand taller than before.

Nick Harkaway

#3. He claimed the waters must have, indeed, been healing, because look how hard his journey was on him to get there, and how easy it was on him to get home.

Sarah Addison Allen

#4. The only reason I've ever had to wear a hat is to avoid skin cancer.

Justine Larbalestier

#5. Technology innovation is starting to explode and having open-source material out there really helps this explosion. You get students and researchers involved and you get people coming through and building start ups based on open source products.

Tim Berners-Lee

#6. Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.

Peggy Noonan

#7. You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

Woodrow Wilson

#8. Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for.

James Taylor

#9. I want to make dubstep something beautiful.

Lindsey Stirling

#10. Knowledge is worth nothing, until it is put to practice.

Abhijit Naskar

#11. What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. In prose, the worst thing you can do with words is to surrender to them.

George Orwell

#12. A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything.

Liu Cixin

#13. You know what I love... everything.

John Irving

#14. Writers know - especially new writers - [that] a lot of it [creative process] is the prewriting stage, the talking, brainstorming, the narrative arc and the character sketches.

Jenna Bush