Fernand Dumont Quotes

#1. The one that has the worst effect for me was pot. I felt silly and giggly - I hate feeling like that.

Angelina Jolie

#2. hard on a curve and lost control of the

Donna Leon

#3. There's so much history amongst ourselve that reminds us of something, and we start cracking up.

Nikki Sixx

#4. After a pretty man breaks your heart, you're happy for a plain man.

Christopher Buehlman

#5. When a small night-lamp alone illuminated our love-making, it became a very small, circular room which silently passed through nights humming with stars.

Fernand Dumont

#6. A woman not yet seen, but whose perfume accumulates on the horizon like a storm cloud.

Fernand Dumont

#7. When is the 'look out the windshield phase' of driving? Pretty much all driving is looking out the windshield! It's not a phase. Saying 'testing takes too long' is a bit like saying 'safe driving takes too long.

Gerald M. Weinberg

#8. An arresting testimony to the haunting power of friendships, THE AFTER GIRLS is a story that understands what it is to be passionate, confused, and on the brink. I loved every resonant word.

Micol Ostow

#9. No one questioned the Machine's powers. Religion had been re-established with the Machine as the Supreme Being. Everyone yielded to 'some invincible pressure, which came no one knew whither, and which, when gratified, was succeeded by some new pressure equally invincible.

John N. Gray

#10. A man may possess the disposition without its producing any good result.

Aristotle.

#11. But it rained all the time, fog covered the fields, and by then he was reading Tolstoy. There were some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things. A Confession was a book like that.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#12. Have an intention, take action, and then learn on the way to success.

Debasish Mridha

#13. Sleep like you can never be dead
Dream as if you have a soul inside your head

Munia Khan

#14. Having a [teenage] daughter is like riding a young horse over an unknown steeplechase course. You don't know when to pull up the reins, when to let the horse have its head - or what.

Grace Kelly

#15. Dad: Did you like the Kinder Egg I gave you yesterday? Son: The chocolate was very good, but the shell was a bit hard. ***

Various

#16. There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

John W. Bergman

#17. Nine-tenths of all artistic creation derives its basic energy from the engine of repression and sublimation, and well beyond the strict Freudian definition of those terms.
John Fowles attended new College in Oxford. You might like to see my collection of Oxford trees at Rob's Bookshop.

John Fowles