Top 17 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. You can just pull the covers over your head and pretend this isn't happening!
Leigh Bardugo
#3. I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.
Linus Torvalds
#4. I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin's death as George Zimmerman was.
Geraldo Rivera
#5. It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.
Robert Venturi
#6. Both of us don't go backwards and I think that is the key to the fight. Whoever ends up going backwards is going to lose.
Ricky Hatton
#8. Don't base reality on what you have seen when you have seen very little.
Scott Sigler
#9. A taxi. The driver vaults out and screams "Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you!" pointing at Samuel as if to specially emphasize that it is him - and no one else - who needs to be fucked.
Nathan Hill
#10. Guns are like thermometers, only instead of measuring body temperatures they measure our fear.
Jean Zimmerman
#11. Me and my books, in the same apartment: like a gherkin in its vinegar.
Julian Barnes
#12. I don't think I've met anyone with a stronger work ethic than Ray Charles.
Clint Eastwood
#13. I think I've already got the main thing I've always wanted, which is to be somebody, to have an identify. I'm Althea Gibson, the tennis champion. I hope it makes me happy.
Althea Gibson
#14. The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.
Miguel De Unamuno
#15. Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.
Roy Bennett
#16. If you want to say it with flowers, remember that a single rose screams in your face: 'I'm cheap!'
Delta Burke
#17. Life is but a day and expresses mainly a single note.
Colm Toibin
