Francis Cabrel Quotes

#1. Rainstorms are incredible: falling shards of glass, the air full of diamonds.

Lauren Oliver

#2. So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief pursuit of ambitious minds.

Edward Gibbon

#3. A student of mine is an actor, he used to go into these interviews and sometimes not get the part. He was "taken out". Someone would use power in a way that would cause him not to succeed

Frederick Lenz

#4. There is an old saying: If you want to hide the treasure, put it in plain sight. Then no one will see it.

Larry Dossey

#5. The simplest action is worth more than the profoundest thought.

Marty Rubin

#6. We have to choices in this world; we either try to survive or to give up.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

#7. Prose should have a flow, the forward momentum of a certain energized weight; it should feel like a voice tumbling in your ear.

John Updike

#8. The head spins in theoretical disarray; no explanatory model suggests itself; bizarre ontologies loom. There is a feeling of intense confusion, but no clear idea about where the confusion lies.

Colin McGinn

#9. I'm a Beatles fan, and I remember in the mid-1980s, when CDs first came out, there was a sound of vinyl and the sound of the needle on it that people loved, and suddenly CDs were threatening.

Peter Jackson

#10. To identify Woman with Altruism is to guarantee man absolute rights to her devotion; it is to impose on women a categorical must-be.

Simone De Beauvoir

#11. And Andy, gloomy and self-devouring, sat at his desk and chewed the cud of memory.

May Sarton

#12. Confidence comes from seeing so many sides, angles, views, and tangents. Because when you do select an approach or direction, you are doing so with better/ more complete information.

Thomas Leonard

#13. If you evoked that frown, what you feared was his disapproval, and when you learned that you had disappointed him, you realized that you needed his approval no less than you needed air, water, and food.

Dean Koontz