Firsthand Account Quotes

#1. Imagine you're a writer, and you have decided to offer your readers a firsthand account of the politically correct primate, the idol of the left, known for its "gay" relations, female supremacy, and pacific lifestyle. Your focus is the bonobo: a close relation of the chimpanzee. You

Frans De Waal

#2. The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.

Michel De Montaigne

#3. A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.

Charles Lamb

#4. Yet we keep returning to reason precisely because it occupies the middle place; it is the revisited point on the swing of the pendulum between scepticism and enthusiasm.

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

#5. Strangely, producing "Parisienne" was very long and difficult because the people who mainly finance films didn't understand the idea of a young foreign girl having a good time in Paris. They wanted to see her suffering and poor, and definitely not falling in love with three French men!

Danielle Arbid

#6. I've always said my biggest influence is my, just, the last work I did, the last piece I made.

Robert Barry

#7. I can only feel the 'I.'
I can know who I am not.
I can know what I am not.
But, who I am,
I cannot express;
I cannot describe it in words.

Santosh Lamichhane

#8. Everyone prefers belief to the exercise of judgement.

Seneca.