Gustave Le Gray Quotes

#1. I've been overweight all my life.

Roberta Flack

#2. Realized that at a level I'd never been conscious we'd been engaged in a game of wits for years. I suppose most writer-subject pairings are like that. Of course, I'd set aside my plan to write about him [Clark Rockfeller] as soon as I'd gotten to know him some, but now I'd resumed that intention.

Walter Kirn

#3. I have the impression that cycling is no longer a game but rather an employment ... a job.

Bernard Hinault

#4. Dwell in peace in the home of your own being, and the Messenger of Death will not be able to touch you.

Guru Nanak

#5. I've always viewed high-frequency trading as a tax on the rest of us.

David F. Swensen

#6. Mozart's mental grip never loosens; he never abandons himself to any one sense; even at his most ecstatic moments his mind is vigorous, alert, and on the wing. He dives unerringly on to his finest ideas like a bird of prey, and once an idea is seized he soars off again with an undiminished power.

Walter J. Turner

#7. Ink and paper were the only place where my voice didn't falter, didn't betray the real me.

Sarah Ockler

#8. The impasse was this: If I let myself speculate even tentatively about that something, if I acknowledged the possibility of a nonhuman agent or agents, some mysterious Other, intervening in my life, could I still call myself an atheist?

Barbara Ehrenreich