Aujourdhui Maman Quotes

#1. And spare me the jokes about scoring."
"Dammit, woman, you read my mind," he said. "Is there no filthy wordplay you can't forsee?"
"It's my special magical power. I can read your mind when you're thinking dirty thoughts."
"So, ninety-five percent of the time.

Cassandra Clare

#2. I was set free because the negotiations were successful, because there were people lobbying for my freedom, and because hundreds of thousands took to the streets in Rome for my freedom.

Giuliana Sgrena

#3. If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must ... intervene as little as possible, so as not to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses.

Henri Matisse

#4. Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead.

Thomas Hobbes

#5. If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.

Cate Blanchett

#6. If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body.

Helen Keller

#7. A stiltskin is magic at its greatest. Pure magic, un-meddled-with and more powerful than any enchantment or spell.

Liesl Shurtliff

#8. The ontological concept of truth is in the centre of a logic which may serve as a model of pre- technological rationality. It is the rationality of a two-dimensional universe of discourse which, contrasts with the of thought and behavior that develop in the execution of the technological project.

Herbert Marcuse

#9. You're arrogant, domineering, egotistical, and disdainful of the law."
He lifted one amused brow. "And your point would be?

J.D. Robb

#10. There was rain on steroids.

Henri Cole

#11. Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas.

William E. Gladstone

#12. There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about

John Von Neumann