Boris Vian Quotes

#1. South Carolina is a great place to be from.

Tim Scott

#2. All that paddling around in the alphabet soup of one's childhood, scooping up letters, hoping to arrange them into enlightening sentences that would explain why things had turned out the way they had. It evoked a certain mutiny in me.

Sue Monk Kidd

#3. One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anything good, or it will alienate all but the most die-hard fans.

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#4. It is one thing to look at a mistreated boat and another to look at a tomb. The silence of the bay seemed more intense. And I could see the glint of the carrion flies.

John D. MacDonald

#5. Rien n'est plus parfait, plus acheve qu'un cadavre. Nothing is more perfect, more complete than a corpse.

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#6. There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.

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#7. Faith can move mountains but let them happily fall down on the heads of other people. What's the point in moving mountains when it's so simple to climb over them?

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#8. I'm not American. I still have my Japanese citizenship.

Masi Oka

#9. I'm not interested in the happiness of all men, but only in the happiness of each.

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#10. I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.

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#11. Painting is at once a form of meditation and an utter, complete personal engagement with life.

Steven Whitney

#12. Nobody knew me at Buckton. Clem had chosen the town because of that; and besides, even if I had wimp out, there was not enough gas to help me going further north. - I spit on your graves ,

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#13. Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

Marilyn Ferguson

#14. People don't change. Things do.

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#15. If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. Most of my problems come from rejecting parts of myself.

Louise Hay

#17. Of course, it's fun to play with Blacks.

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#18. It's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops - for a split second.

David Hockney

#19. The three great moments of my life had to be the concerts of Ellington in 1938, Dizzy in '48, and Ella in '52.

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#20. Procrastination is a prelude in a minor key.

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#21. The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.

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#22. The truth, whether we admit it or not, is that grace scares us to death. It scares us primarily because it wrestles control and manageability out of our hands - introducing chaos and freedom.

Tullian Tchividjian

#23. Nobody ever intends to be old.

Marie Corelli

#24. If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't got very far at being equal.

Helen Fielding

#25. Les femmes et les hommes ne vivent pas sur le me me plan. Women and men do not live according to the same design.

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#26. Humor is the politeness of despair.

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#27. In Argentina, urban poverty plummeted from 54.7 percent in 2003 to 6.5 percent in 2011, according to government data collected by the U.N.

Naomi Klein

#28. Because ... 1 child that's unsafe ... is 1 child too many!

Timothy Pina

#29. Les masses ont tort et les individus toujours raison. The masses are wrong; individuals are always right.

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