Flambeau Quotes

#1. Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light - and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau - into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.

Nadine Gordimer

#2. Go on," said the priest very gently. "We are only trying to find the truth. What are you afraid of?" "I am afraid of finding it," said Flambeau.

G.K. Chesterton

#3. We will return to them. For now, he's the one we can't look away from. He is the shining one.]

Lauren Groff

#4. Great people and champions are special gifts of God, whom He gives and preserves; they do their work, and achieve great actions, not with vain imaginations, or cold and sleepy cogitations, but by motion of God.

Martin Luther

#5. Truly informed sources rarely expect others to accept their conclusions simply because they assert them.

Anthony Weston

#6. I sometimes try to write something that is actually really simple and I can't do it. So, then, it's not simple anymore. It's really hard and it gets all messed up. I sometimes sit down and try to write a song with just three chords and it doesn't work.

Sondre Lerche

#7. The meaning of a word is its use in the language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#8. I'm more of an exaggerator than a liar.

Dita Von Teese

#9. I will spend anything on the best sheets in the world because I am going to be in them every night. I like them white and crazy soft.

Amy Landecker

#10. The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all America.

John F. Kennedy

#11. Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus! Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.

Walt Whitman