Bovarysme Quotes

#1. I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovarysme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare.

T. S. Eliot

#2. Everybody should have a documentary made about themselves. It's amazing what you see and what you learn.

Bela Fleck

#3. Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.

David Johansen

#4. Of course, the more you read, the more you learn, and ultimately there is more information than you can ever use. The difficulty is that as an outsider, you know you're too ignorant for your own good, and so the urge to keep researching and *never* start writing is pretty strong.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#5. The brain secretes thought as the stomach secretes gastric juice, the liver bile, and the kidneys urine.

Karl Vogt

#6. So I do fear death in the sense that I find the prospect of dying pretty scary. But I no longer fear that I will one day be annihilated and cease to exist.

Brad Warner

#7. It's hard not to stand in awe and enchantment with the beauty in which nature expresses herself.

Steve Maraboli

#8. And at the last all shall be safe, and evil thrust out never to return. And so that the trust be kept, he said, I give it into your charge, and your sons', and your sons' sons, until the day come.

Susan Cooper

#9. Comedy is a cruel mistress, especially if you're already seeing a really cruel mistress.

Dov Davidoff

#10. High thoughts must have high language.

Aristophanes

#11. I love hearing my music, I love hearing it by other people. I hope it will always be played.

Smokey Robinson

#12. I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

Ginger Baker

#13. I don't know why people thought I was retiring.

Billy Joel

#14. When love comes, it comes without effort like the perfect weather.

Helen Yglesias