Flaubert S Parrot Quotes

#1. In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it ... a wild book.

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

#2. Mario sees himself in Nintendo DS, and he feels like flying.

Reggie Fils-Aime

#3. Creon: Why not? You and the whole breed of seers are mad for money.
Tiresias: And the whole race of tyrants lusts for filthy gain.

Sophocles

#4. American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.

Bob Schieffer

#5. Kids, man. They'll be the ones to take mountain biking to the next level for us. You just watch

Gary Fisher

#6. A problem with a president who leads by stirring the moral sentiments of voters is that he has got to keep stirring them.

Jill Lepore

#7. Travel is the excitement of life! Everything is an adventure, and if you look at it like that, even at the worst moment you can say: 'We will laugh tomorrow about this.' And you do.

Joan Rivers

#8. Me and my books, in the same apartment: like a gherkin in its vinegar.

Julian Barnes

#9. Its form doesn't matter: no form manages to circumscribe and alter it. Mirror is light. A tiny piece of mirror is always the whole mirror.

Clarice Lispector

#10. Some things just couldn't be protectd from storms. Some things simply needed to be broken off ... Once old thing were broken off, amazingly beautiful thing could grow in their place.

Denise Hildreth Jones

#11. I'm one of those artists who have the presence and that swag ... I was always built for the music, I don't get on cameras and pop sh*t and base it on a whole lot of hype and talk, I was built off my music ...

Juelz Santana

#12. I've felt a little tired, but I'm only 24. I love playing football. That's my job and that's what I love doing.

David Beckham

#13. I wandered for many years, so long that I forgot that I possessed a soul.48 Where were you all this time? Which Beyond sheltered you and gave you sanctuary? Oh, that you must speak through me, that my speech and I are your symbol and expression! How should I decipher you?

C. G. Jung

#14. Her love had reached a point where now at last she was beginning to be unhappy, to be desperate.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#15. Thoughts - even fears - were airy things, formless until you made them solid with your voice and once given that weight, they could crush you.

Kristin Hannah

#16. I've been to three Olympics and I don't feel I've ever quite achieved my best at any of them.

Paula Radcliffe