Clermont Quotes

#1. Jeb Bush has to distance himself from what they call the Bush brand. So he keeps saying, 'I am my own man.' But when Governor Chris Christie is out on the campaign trail, he's always saying, 'I'm my own man, plus another guy.'

David Letterman

#2. But the Duke of Clermont was smiling and cheerful, and he'd thrown it out there as if it were merely one more fact to be recounted. The weather is lovely. The streets are paved with cobblestone. Your tits are magnificent.

Courtney Milan

#3. I think we get stuck in routines so easily that when an absurd moment in life seems to be there for no reason, it wakes you up out of your everyday pattern. You pull back and look at life a little bit wider because of that one weird thing you weren't expecting.

Kurt Braunohler

#4. You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die.

Zora Neale Hurston

#5. For storms will rage and oceans roar,
When Gabriel stands on sea and shore,
And as he blows his wondrous horn,
Old worlds die and new be born.

Deborah Harkness

#6. Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accept the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay-and claims a halo for his dishonesty.

Robert A. Heinlein

#7. You women are daughters of God. You are precious. You are made in the image of our Heavenly Mother.

Spencer W. Kimball

#8. Sometimes the only action you can take leads to more trouble. (Honey)

Patricia Briggs

#9. Shame is such an intense emotion. It just can drive you.

Kyra Sedgwick

#10. His full name is Matthew Gabriel Philippe Bertrand Sebastien de Clermont. He was also a very good Sebastien, and a passable Gabriel. He hates Bertrand and will not answer to Philippe.

Deborah Harkness

#11. Good science fiction starts with a question "what if...?

Franklin Clermont

#12. When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

Billy Graham

#13. Whether divine or human, it is precisely the imagination that fashions and recognizes the universe as meaningful, abiding, and valuable, that is to say, as real.

William K. Mahony

#14. Authentic leadership is the full expression of "me" for the benefit of "we".

Henna Inam

#15. Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.

Felix Dennis

#16. A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.

Stendhal

#17. A person usually has two reasons for doing something, a good reason and the real reason.

Thomas Carlyle

#18. Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me.'

Criss Jami

#19. But it's Atlanta that can lay claim to the best of the best (which is to say worst) chef-friendly dives in America: the legendary Clermont Lounge, a sort of lost-luggage department for strippers, who perform - perfunctorily - on a stage behind the bar.

Anthony Bourdain