Desproges Quotes

#1. You can laugh of everything, but not with everybody.

Pierre Desproges

#2. I got what I needed out of Princeton in 1 year, and I didn't think it was useful.

Manoj Bhargava

#3. The enemy is stupid: he believes that the enemy is us, even though it's him!

Pierre Desproges

#4. Let's see ... ah, yes, this is nice and cozy. It was a broom cupboard.

J.K. Rowling

#5. She has given him her breath and the pulse of her body. Given him her passion, her hatred, and her love, her past and future. Given him all that is essential in her, so that she will never be whole without him.

David R. Gillham

#6. [G]rowing into your future with health and grace and beauty doesn't have to take all your time. It rather requires a dedication to caring for yourself as if you were rare and precious, which you are, and regarding all life around you as equally so, which it is. (267-268)

Victoria Moran

#7. But that's what happens when you allow a nice person to write a news paper serial for you; now the world thinks you're nice, too, which is silly in the extreme. Sadly, it's a burden that you must bear.

Karen Hawkins

#8. Suddenly, she heard a loud bang, a thump and a scream that caused her to jump from the bed. The hair on the back of her neck stood straight up and her body became one big goosebump.

Evangeline Duran Fuentes

#9. Grown ups don't believe in Santa Claus. They vote.

Pierre Desproges

#10. Suggestibility varies as the amount of disaggregation, and inversely as the unification of consciousness.

Boris Sidis

#11. Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Aldous Huxley

#12. A mirror mirroring a mirror

Douglas R. Hofstadter