Bourger Lafayette Quotes

#1. Life is a miracle.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#2. To live an extraordinary life, you must resist an ordinary approach.

Frank McKinney

#3. I like to have my characters talking in an up-to-date way, and I like their essentially modern self-awareness, which means we can have lots of irony and jokes.

Jonathan Stroud

#4. I've learned that home isn't a place, it's a feeling.

Cecelia Ahern

#5. Satire is not a social dynamite. But it is a social indicator: it shows that new men are knocking at the door.

Jacob Bronowski

#6. I don't want to write lines where characters tell me exactly how they feel; I want to see people talk about anything but their feelings, like they do in real life.

Tobias Lindholm

#7. A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#8. That's what a little victory in psychiatry looks like. You slip into the shadows, dodging the mind's defense mechanisms, glad enough to take a half-step toward the truth. Behind the next word or the next glance may lurk the demon you seek, all in flames, desperate to be held, but set to flee. (8)

Keith Ablow

#9. Summer coming like a car from down the highway.

Sherman Alexie

#10. For all I know, entire scientific reputations may have been built on the work of students and colleagues! I don't know what can be done to combat this dishonesty.

Richard Dawkins

#11. I feel like there's an obsession with pace right now in theater, with things being very fast and very witty and very loud, and I think we're all so freaked out about theater keeping audiences interested because everybody's so freaked out about theater becoming irrelevant.

Annie Baker

#12. The apostle said he was "hard pressed on every side, yet not crushed." He made no attempt to mask his pain in a fraudulent piety. The Christian is not a Stoic. Neither does he flee into a fantasy world that denies the reality of suffering. Paul freely admitted the pressure he experienced.

R.C. Sproul

#13. Of all my father's teachings, the most enduring was the one about the true measure of a man. That true measure was how well he provided for his children, and it stuck with me as if it were etched in my brain.

Sidney Poitier

#14. Most people don't know how underpaid and often ill-equipped urban fire departments are across North America.

Denis Leary