Delectation Francais Quotes

#1. I began working with a family camera. It was called a Kodak Autographic, which was one of those things where you flopped it open and pulled out the bellows. And I've been at it ever since; I've never stopped.

Leonard Nimoy

#2. He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans.

Richard Brautigan

#3. When I became CEO, Puma was bankrupt on paper.

Jochen Zeitz

#4. Their only respite is in the balm of bleakness. Disdainful of the solicitations of hope, they look for sanctuary in desolate places - a scattering of ruins in a barren locale or a rubble of words in a book where someone whispers in a dry voice, "I, too, am here." However,

Thomas Ligotti

#5. Why do men delight in work? Fundamentally, I suppose, because there is a sense of relief and pleasure in getting something done - a kind of satisfaction not unlike that which a hen enjoys on laying an egg.

H.L. Mencken

#6. Water will run by rule; the actual sun / Will scrupulously rise and set; / No little man lives in the exacting moon / And that is that, is that, is that.

Sylvia Plath

#7. I hate married men. They never make any sacrifices to the arts, but are always thinking of their duties to their wives and families or some rubbish of that sort.

J. M. W. Turner

#8. If I have a fundamental belief that the universe is created by God, then I also come to the belief that that universe reflects God, it gives me some knowledge of Him. Obviously, therefore, the more I know of the universe is, the more enriched my limited knowledge of God is.

George Coyne

#9. People who are really efficient seem to do things easily, with a minimum of effort. In doing so they release maximum power.

Norman Vincent Peale

#10. You can mess with a lot of things, but you can't mess with kids on Christmas.

Kevin McAllister

#11. Love is tranquility in the world.

Zai