Iles Flottantes Quotes

#1. Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others.

Georg Solti

#2. To make ourselves invisible to creditors or to the envious, and even to our own worries, we can take advantage here on earth of a great democratic institution-in fact, democracy's only success-the night.

Jean Giraudoux

#3. Myrnin froze, staring at her. He really was amazing, she thought; when he had that light in his eyes, it was possible to see past the crazy behavior and clothing chaos and recognize him as just ... beautiful. The longing in his face was breathtaking.

Rachel Caine

#4. A strong man next to you in bed is a comfort, but real security is a German Shepherd bitch on guard at the door.

Susan Conant

#5. My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.

Alain Resnais

#6. Just imagine how much you'd get done if you stopped actively sabotaging your own work.

Seth Godin

#7. I guess I had what you could call an unconventional upbringing.

Joaquin Phoenix

#8. A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

Henry Fielding

#9. People, since the beginning of time, have always tried to understand the universe through love.

Paulo Coelho

#10. There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#11. While Cabinets of Curiosities were intended to be microcosms of the world, and to symbolise a ruler's all-powerful control of his realm, Rudolf's came to mean much more than that. It become his refuge from personal and political turmoil, a private universe he could control.

Joanne Owen

#12. For he that once is good, is ever great.

Ben Jonson