Courtemanche Quotes

#1. Propaganda is as powerful as heroin; it surreptitiously dissolves all capacity to think.

Gil Courtemanche

#2. The Arcade, and now Peabody's, combined to tell me that there was life in objects, in books. It was all about having eyes to see the true meaning of things. As Pike proved daily, books held a kind of magic, an apparent as well as a hidden value.

Sheridan Hay

#3. And no other attempt made at secrecy than Mrs. Norris's talking of it everywhere as a matter not to be talked of at present.

Jane Austen

#4. As soon as you get off stage, that's the most dangerous time for a singer to kiss people because your vocal chords are receptive to any kind of germ.

Anita Baker

#5. His rest was thing and lit by the crudely poetic dreams only adolescent boys have, dreams where sexual attraction and romantic love come together and resonate more powerfully than they ever will again.

Stephen King

#6. The reason we can say anything we want in America is that we know it makes no difference.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#7. The ruin or blank, that we see when we look at nature is in our own eye ... Love is as much its demand, as perception. Indeed neither can be perfect without the other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#9. There were days when I was literally running for hours in the forest and then I'd jump on a plane and then I'd be on the 'Nurse Jackie' set. I was going from Vancouver to New York every three days. For me, it was really invigorating.

Peter Facinelli

#10. May love's kindred treasure box fling your luminescent glove.

Isabel Yosito

#11. For this I would be damned forever. For this I would have given up everything.

Cassandra Clare

#12. Purity is something that can be consciously developed. Expect to have impure moments, thoughts, and ideas. One day they will go away, and then there will be happiness.

Frederick Lenz

#13. She was impressed by its simplicity and its seriousness, and the rage she had cultivated with so much love for so many days faded away on the spot.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#14. People were always able to look at Bettie Page and see what they needed her to be and she gave them that permission to do so. So in that way she's a feminist but I don't think she was ever trying to be.

Gretchen Mol

#15. This is the strange undoing of a collection, of a house and of a family. It is the moment of fissure when grand things are taken and when family objects, known and handled and loved, become stuff.

Edmund De Waal

#16. A smile costs nothing in money, time, or effort but it is literally true that it can be of supreme importance in ones life.

Emmet Fox