Bouvard Pecuchet Quotes

#1. I could write stories; I could hide from the world and make my own instead of trying to change it or live in it. I could make paper people and I would love them too; I could make them almost real.

Ally Condie

#2. THERE ARE THINGS I LOVE ABOUT marriage. I love the familiarity of it," Nedra said. "It's like a tattoo. You wanted it at the time, you have it, it's implanted in your skin, you can't get rid of it. You're hardly even aware of it any more. I suppose I'm very conventional," she decided.

James Salter

#3. I feel naked when I'm by myself on stage. I feel as honest as I can.

Johnette Napolitano

#4. Not everyone in the world is alike. And some of us are a lot more different than others. Some of us were born like this, some of us were changed. But no matter how this happened to you, if you are here it is because this is your destiny. It was chosen for you.

C.C. Hunter

#5. You're my favorite kind of sound.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#6. You can talk to me, you know. I'd never give away your secrets."
"What's that saying about secrets?" she said lightly. "Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.

Elle Kennedy

#7. Heather: In any case, it really is very kind of you to give up so much time for the children. I'm quite sure you have a thousand more important things to attend to. Sergeant Kynper: If not for them, then who the hell is it all for?

Robert Radcliffe

#8. I think a lot of people think that we [comedians] are nerveless people in the theatre, that we don't feel that kind of terror which traditionally anyone who has to do any public speaking feels. It's worse for actors, because our livelihood depends on it.

Barry Humphries

#9. When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body.

Paul Gauguin

#10. We aren't there yet,' said Bouvard.
Let's hope not,' said Pecuchet.

Gustave Flaubert

#11. Music is my friend, no matter where I go.

John Frusciante

#12. If you sit down with me, I guarantee I will accept any terms you offer for a contract.

David O. Selznick

#13. Our religious police has the most dangerous effect on society - the segregation of genders, putting the wrong ideas in the heads of men and women, producing psychological diseases that never existed in our country before, like fanatacism.

Basmah Bint Saud

#14. I have no secret. There are no rules to follow in business. I just work hard and, as I always have done, believe I can do it. Most of all, though, I try to have fun.

Richard Branson

#15. The holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mould yourself through the gaps.

Paula Hawkins

#16. I'm kind of effectively bipolar.

Emily Blunt