Genette Quotes

#1. The door opened to reveal something like the opposite of Inspector Genette: a very big man. Prognathous, callipygous, steatopygous, exophthalmos - toad, newt, frog - even the very words were ugly.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#2. It all comes down to this: when you recognise your loneliness in another person, when you see desperation so familiar to yours written across someone else, you can't just let them leave.

Chloe Rattray

#3. There are only three truths. That which can be known. That which can never be known. The third, which concerns the writer alone, truly is neither of these.

Miguel Syjuco

#4. I had a passion and love of learning and wisdom that was inseparable from a love of music and the arts. I've never viewed them in any way as being separable.

Cornel West

#5. The idea that all people can and should live together in peace is not really a new one - but yet in practice it is very young indeed.

Christina Engela

#6. The pedestal upon which women have been placed has all too often, upon closer inspection, been revealed as a cage.

Irin Carmon

#7. Idolatry is really not good for anyone. Not even the idols.

John Bach

#8. I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord.

Neil Young

#9. If all who love one another were of the same opinion, living would be monotonous, and conversation flabby. So cheer up. You are content. All me to be.

Mildred Aldrich

#10. Life is real, and it's ugly, and it hurts. I've only ever loved three things in my life, and none of them worked out for me.

C.M. Stunich

#11. I've talked to so many people, men and women alike, that get overweight and their self-esteem just goes in the tank. They think they're judged. They think they're unattractive.

Phil McGraw

#12. Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#13. The field (of filmmaking) is suddenly sexy, ... so it's deluged with these wannabes who say 'I don't want to be a secret agent, I'll be a filmmaker.' I think a lot of people are really kind of naive.

John Landis

#14. Aunt Libby: "I think I'm getting married! I've been dying to tell you."
Raven: "You are? Congrats! Dad didn't mention ... "
Aunt Libby: "Well, okay, it's not official or anything. In fact, we haven't officially gone out yet. I just met him last night.

Ellen Schreiber

#15. I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for? in the words of the Preacher, 'The words of wise men are heard in quiet' (Eccles. 9:17).

Saint Basil

#16. Put yourself into life and never lose your openness, your childish enthusiasm throughout the journey that is life, and things will come your way.

Federico Fellini