Camille Desmoulins Quotes

#1. I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Camille Desmoulins

#2. Lack of sleep is only bad if you have to drive, or think, or talk, or move.

Dov Davidoff

#3. What is this much repeated phrase 'active citizen' supposed to mean? The active citizens are the ones who took the Bastille.

Camille Desmoulins

#4. For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we've all had to become disappears, when we're confronted with something as simple as a plate of food.

Anthony Bourdain

#5. I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and only one guillotine.

Camille Desmoulins

#6. In terms of graphic versus prose, I could probably do a lecture on that topic. But what stood out most was the difference in pacing the language and resulting scenes. One illustration can do so much for the reader.

Cynthia Leitich Smith

#7. Humiliating events have a way of capturing the public's imagination. So it has been since antiquity, when gladiators were pitted against each other and the legions of Spartacus were crucified in endless rows on the way to Rome.

Gary Weiss

#8. You're never too old to play. You're only too old for low-rise jeans.

Ellen DeGeneres

#9. Burning is no answer.

Camille Desmoulins

#10. CAMILLE DESMOULINS: For the establishment of liberty and the safety of the nation, one day of anarchy will do more than ten years of National Assemblies.

Hilary Mantel

#11. You have five seconds to leave the building. After that you're just asking for it.

Sharon Stevenson

#12. The man breathed deeply with his eyes shut and his speech trailed off. Nick approached the patient with the syringe in hand, nodding. He turned the machine up now, almost all the way, and then proceeded with the injection.
I think you're about ready.

Jackie Sonnenberg

#13. Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.

Camille Desmoulins

#14. Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.

Camille Desmoulins

#15. We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

Tennessee Williams

#16. If you open this you'll see it's empty, and you'll wonder for a sec if it was empty when you gave it yo me
I can see it
another empty gesture you slipped into my hand like a bad bribe.

Daniel Handler

#17. I felt pressured by continuous touring.

Andy Partridge

#18. I'm trying to be a loving and caring mother, a loving and caring wife-to-be, a loving and caring daughter, a loving and caring friend, a responsible person. And every day is another opportunity for me to be successful at that.

Lauryn Hill

#19. Tomorrow comes after the dark

Tupac Shakur

#20. I was aware of doing only a so-so job on the grown-up career front, but I didn't really care, because there were two big exam questions I wanted to be sure I answered fully: the question of art, and the question of love.

Claire Messud

#21. When rappers call each other son it leads me to believe they don't take fatherhood very seriously.

Dov Davidoff