Ayme Quotes

#1. Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration.

Michel Gondry

#2. Let thy true religion be to act right.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. So to keep a fantasy, do not peer too closely at the world; fuzzy vision suits you best. Your creative power, turned away, is aimed inside to juggle fantasies, to solve the problems of a child's intrigue.

Arthur J. Deikman

#4. I think I was as mentally tough as I've ever been. I felt like I handled the situation both on and off the court extremely well. I felt like I needed to.

Lleyton Hewitt

#5. The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Elfriede Jelinek

#6. The hard part on the subway is that you have, let's say, eight hours, but you have to hit these deadlines. From here to here, you can use this part. From this time to this time, you can use that part, and you have to hit them and it gets very stressful.

Jaume Collet-Serra

#7. Making the complicated simple is true creativity.

Charles Mingus

#8. It is not simply a theological treatise, a code of laws, a religious homily, but the Bible - the book - while the only book for the soul, the best book for the mind

Herrick Johnson

#9. I have to learn to find that inner core of strength that I am definitely made up of and stretch it into areas where I don't always use it.

Jodie Andrefski

#10. I've always been drawn to a certain kind of dark aesthetic in cinema and in film, to what's abjected or considered abject. I've been tremendously influenced by noirish cinema whether that's Von Sternberg or Scorsese in the 70s or Lynch, etc.

Anton Yelchin

#11. Men constantly miscalculate what they can do in a day, and grossly underestimate what can be achieved in a year.

Chris Murray

#12. My idea of a traditional holiday - the right way to do it - goes back to the days when gift-giving meant sharing homemade things: hand-knit sweaters, carved wooden toys, smoked meats and the like.

Mark Frauenfelder

#13. Water is what it is, and does what it does. It can overwhelm, but it's not overwhelmed. It can be still, but it is not impatient. It can be forced to change course, but it is not frustrated.

David Allen

#14. The problem is, I think, that so many of us pray as if we are ordering groceries. We pick up the telephone and say, 'Is this the right place to place my order?' and we proceed right to dictating our order. When we have then ended that list, we hang up.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#15. Why should people have money if they don't know how to use it?

John Fowles

#16. Always be just and honest so that every time you look at the mirror you don't see an abominable creature on it!

Mehmet Murat Ildan