Habiter Imperfect Quotes

#1. Milton, of all people, gave the most perfect definition of the state of mind required to play jazz: ' with wanton heed and giddy cunning.' That's how you play jazz.

Paul Desmond

#2. A: Anyone who looks like she does has to be somebody ...
B: What does she look like?
A: An ice cream. I had a spoon I would have eaten her.

Elmore Leonard

#3. On both of my flights, everything went very well.

Sally Ride

#4. One of the few advantages of reaching my age is that I've seen it all. Learned not to judge anyone until I've walked in their shoes. That's why we all need friends, isn't it, to help us out with the weak spots? And sometimes the weak spots nobody can see are the ones that hurt the most.

Debbie Johnson

#5. People tend to focus on the here and now. The problem is that, once global warming is something that most people can feel in the course of their daily lives, it will be too late to prevent much larger, potentially catastrophic changes.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#6. For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc.

Roman Jakobson

#7. Monopoly is business at the end of its journey.

Henry Demarest Lloyd

#8. Use 'breath prayers' throughout the day, as many Christians have done for centuries. You choose a brief sentence or a simple phrase that can be repeated to Jesus in one breath.

Rick Warren

#9. I had good intentions but it turned out, what I thought was a blessing had been nothing but a curse. So for now, blame it on the stealer.

A. Mani

#10. We conquer by continuing.

George Matheson

#11. So many times of needing to be close to her, talk to her, see her smile at me, and now I had her in my arms, I never wanted to let her go.

Penelope Douglas

#12. There is enough love and good will in our movement to give energy to our struggle and still have plenty left over to break down and change the climate of hate and fear around us.

Cesar Chavez

#13. He wouldn't hurt her. Never on purpose. Nev was going to hurt her accidentally, and when he did it would be her own fault.

Ruthie Knox

#14. Henry: I usen't to need anyone, just to myself, stories, there was a great one about an old fellow called Bolton, I never finished it, I never finished any of them, I never finished anything, everything always went on for ever. (Pause.)

Samuel Beckett

#15. While I live, every criminal must die.

Pope Sixtus V