Idiot Boys Quotes

#1. Mitchell had answered that, as far as he understood them, mystical experiences were significant only to the extent that they changed a person's conception of reality, and if that changed conception led to a change in behavior and action, a loss of ego.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#2. What bound people together was so fragile.

Paul Russell

#3. Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.

Jean Cocteau

#4. Some people you meet slowly, and others you get to know in a second. Incredibly fast, as if you've known them your whole life and you just revisiting an old memory

Tammy Faith

#5. Any habit may be discontinued by building in its place some other and more desirable habit.

Napoleon Hill

#6. Must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver when the race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy.

Jane Addams

#7. You have to learn to work and search, not expect instantly to find.

Patsy Rodenburg

#8. Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.

Vincent Van Gogh

#9. And Bish thought it strange that seventeen-year-old girls who had sex with idiot boys could still cry like babies for their fathers.

Melina Marchetta

#10. When he turned round with the cup to his mouth, nostrils titillated by the aroma of a sun that had once shone on a Colombian coffee farmer's fields, Klavs Jeppensen's chair was empty.

Jussi Adler-Olsen

#11. For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.

Michel De Montaigne

#12. [My hair] creates this Tarzanesque, likeable bad-boy image. It says, 'I am a wild child. I will take you on a Harley ride, then make passionate love to you. And should you be attacked by a lion or an idiot at a bar, I will protect you.'

Bret Michaels

#13. Create form out of the nature of the task with the means of our time. This is our work.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#14. How else could you explain a sapient species that had overpopulated itself to the point of environmental collapse? This was a people that had coupled themselves stupid.

Becky Chambers

#15. It was better not to remember such terrible details.

Leo Tolstoy