Dominique Bouhours Quotes

#1. I liked numbers because they were solid, invariant; they stood unmoved in a chaotic world.
There was in numbers and their relation something absolute, certain, not to be questioned, beyond doubt.

Oliver Sacks

#2. So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?

Jodi Picoult

#3. We might have reason to be driven! We live for a short stretch of time in a world we share with others. Virtually everything we do is dependent on others, from the arts and culture to farmers who grow the food we eat.

Amartya Sen

#4. I knew i didn't know what the hell communism was, and yet i'd been dead set against it. Just like when you're a little kid and they get you to believe in the bogeyman. You don't know what the hell the bogeyman is, but you hate him and you're scared of him.

Assata Shakur

#5. There are some persons on whom virtue sits almost as ungraciously as vice.

Dominique Bouhours

#6. I used to hate being recognised.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

#7. The possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are limitless.

Dominique Bouhours

#8. First there was Genesis I, then Genesis II, and, if all goes well, there will be a Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) attached to the International Space Station (ISS) by 2015.

Erik Seedhouse

#9. The Basic Eight and Watch Your Mouth both have first-person voices, and I ended up investigating those voices and investing so much in them that I think many people took them more seriously than they ought to have.

Daniel Handler

#10. Fear of Failure becomes Fear of Success for those who Never Try Anything New.

Wayne Dyer

#11. After the Second World War, San Francisco was the main point of re-entry for sailors returning from the Pacific. Out at sea, many of these sailors had picked up amatory habits that were frowned upon back on dry land. So these sailors stayed in San Francisco ...

Jeffrey Eugenides

#12. You probably think of the orchestra as a heterogeneous mass of instruments
producing a confused agreeable mass
of sound. You do not listen for details because you have never trained your ears to listen to details.

Arnold Bennett

#13. Technology has transformed the world into a global village. And communities, families, friends, etc., into local islands.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#14. He was
a hip cat
a hep cat
a cool cat

a bad
mad
rad cat

Oobie-do John the Sax Man Scat Man

the long
sleek
cat man!!

Jonathan London

#15. Silence is a virtue in those who are deficient in understanding.

Dominique Bouhours

#16. An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#17. Disability scholars Andrienne Asch and Erik Parens, in their seminal discussion of the problem, wrote,'Pre-natal diagnosis reinforces the medical model that disability itself, not societal discrimination against people with disabilities, is the problem to be solved.

Andrew Solomon

#18. I am about to - or I am going to - die; either expression is correct.

Dominique Bouhours

#19. If I would have listened to the naysayers, I would still be in the Austrian Alps yodeling.

Arnold Schwarzenegger