Flaviana Quotes

#1. The soil of Palestine still enjoys her sabbaths, and only waits for the return of her
banished children, and the application of industry, commensurate with her agricultural
capabilities, to burst once more into universal luxuriance, and be all that she ever was
in the days of Solomon.

John Lindsay

#2. Being alone is and nothing is altogether not.

Parmenides

#3. It's a strange sensation to pick up a book you read and enjoyed just a few months ago and discover you don't remember it.

Daniel Keyes

#4. Too bad for Dallyn she'd been cast to look good in a leather bathing suit, not for her muscles. Size mattered. Jane hit her again and the impact sent the smaller woman flying backwards into the river.

Cassandra Gannon

#5. How little the general report of any one ought to be credited, since no character, however upright, can escape the malevolence of slander.

Jane Austen

#6. I'm taking it day by day. I liked saying this. It was honest, short, and seemed to satisfy people.

Jennifer Castle

#7. In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.

Robert Bresson

#8. Addison's disease and colitis. Twice a day the doctors shot him up with a

Ken Follett

#9. I don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fiction from the perspective of each writer. If I'm teaching a story by Hemingway, my endeavor is to present the story that Hemingway wrote in its fullest realization.

Joyce Carol Oates

#10. It seems that our politicians see the world in black and white, so why not our artists? Did Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' have to be in black and white? No. But is it fantastic that it was? To see New York like that? Yes!

Alexander Payne

#11. It's funny how the darkest moments of your life can bring about the best ones.

Kathryn Kennish

#12. In order to get out of the dumps, there are many steps to walk up, and most of the ones I know of, not only for myself but others, are made of money.

Vincent Price

#13. The pressures for human cloning are powerful; but, although it seems likely that somebody, at some time, will attempt it, we need not assume that it will ever become a common or significant feature of human life.

Ian Wilmut

#14. I have friends wherever there are clusters of trees, stricken but not defeated, which have come together with touching perseverance to offer a common supplication to an inclement sky which has no mercy upon them.

Marcel Proust

#15. The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand