Elisabeth Roudinesco Quotes

#1. A lot of pubs in London are now faceless, expensive yuppy bars. Not like when I was growing up. The pub used to be, and should be, the pillar of community.

Jason Flemyng

#2. The desire to never leave your side, the desire to never see you again. The desire to see your face asleep on the pillow beside my face and to see your eyes open in the morning when I lie next to you - just watching you, waiting for you to wake up.

John Irving

#3. I've been called the journeyman. It's really more by default than it is by design.

Chris Squire

#4. Behavior is shaped and maintained by its consequences

B.F. Skinner

#5. I still have to say that I did 'Dirty Pretty Things' 11 years ago. That was a very sudden shift in my life and my relationship to my work, and it didn't feel it was impossible to make a film like that.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#6. What are the publications that succeed? Those that pretend to teach the public that the persons they have been accustomed unwittingly to look up to as the lights of the earth are no better than themselves.

William Hazlitt

#7. If you kill someone in Texas, we'll kill ya back.

Ron White

#8. Grief isn't something you can finish; it isn't something with a beginning and an end. Grief is something you absorb, something you accept. But in order to learn to live with it, you still have to live.

J.M. Darhower

#9. Today's mercantile society exploits the will to jouissance so as to repress it all the more.

Elisabeth Roudinesco