Deuil Du Quotes

#1. I was afraid of burglars and Indian thugs and snakes and fires and Jack the Ripper, when I should have been afraid of thirty years in a bank and a take-over bid and a premature retirement and the Deuil du Roy Albert.

Graham Greene

#2. If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.

Paul McCartney

#3. With great profundity I note the pleasure one gets or takes in pushing wheeled objects, as opposed to the depression involved in pulling them.

Michael Cisco

#4. While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you will be nothing.

Martial

#5. I told him that I didn't want magic, that I wanted someone who wouldn't leave me if he could. Who wouldn't feel being committed to me was such a burden.

Rainbow Rowell

#6. I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.

Jack Dangermond

#7. I'm not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing.

Robert Wyatt

#8. Without an adequate response, an epidemic can develop into a pandemic, which generally means it has spread to more than one continent.

Alan Huffman

#9. A friend is another I.

Aristotle.

#10. I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.

Joanna Lumley

#11. Poetry is breathing words that gives a reader pause.

Ankita Singhal

#12. To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement.

Raymond Queneau

#13. Either the gods are there whether you believe or not, or exist only as a function of the belief, so either way you might as well ignore the whole business ...

Terry Pratchett

#14. History is not a pattern-book of fossilized ideologies.

F. M. Powicke

#15. There has to be someone who is willing to do it, who is willing to take whatever risks are required. I don't think it can be done with money alone. The person has to be dedicated to the task. There has to be some other motivation.

Cesar Chavez

#16. my mother gave me islam.

my father gave me the god of absence.

and here i am.

a religion made of myself.

Nayyirah Waheed