Jacqueline Gareau Quotes

#1. The book is worth reading, in part because it is enjoyable to read of
other people's folly, not to mention their avarice and stupidity."
Roger Lowenstein, reviewing "Devil Take the Hindmost: a History
of Financial Speculation", WSJ 6-1-99

Roger Lowenstein

#2. Sweets to the sweet," he murmured,

Clive Barker

#3. I wish our love was right now.

Megan McCafferty

#4. I'm not asking for sympathy, but it would be nice if you could give me a bit more in the way of a response. Other than those cold interjections of yours - ohs and ums. How about a conjunction? A conjunction would be nice. A yet or a but.

Haruki Murakami

#5. And if this disenchanted vision were elevated to the status of being the only legitimate vision of the nature of the cosmos upheld by an entire civilization, what an incalculable loss, an impoverishment, a tragic deformation, a grief, would ultimately be suffered by both knower and known.

Richard Tarnas

#6. You want to be single?
I said yes. And then I told her that I thought single was a stupid term. It made it sound like you were unattached to anyone, unconnected to anything. I preferred the term singular. As in individual.

David Levithan

#7. Once you sign on as an actor, you know, you don't go to the editing room, you don't see how they cut, you don't see how they score, you don't see how they cast the rest of the movie.

Albert Brooks

#8. The body does not want you to do this. As you run, it tells you to stop but the mind must be strong. You always go too far for your body. You must handle the pain with strategy ... It is not age; it is not diet. It is the will to succeed.

Jacqueline Gareau

#9. They say the day you lose your parents, you start to look like them.

Vincent Cassel

#10. I saw satan laughing with delight
The day the music died.

Don McLean

#11. You can't make someone do something they don't want to, but if you are kind about it, you can convince them to do the right thing, even if they are uncertain what that is.
--Jala, Healer to the House of Soris

D.G. Novak

#12. The USA was the explicit answer to an implicit threat of war, whereas the EU was the implicit answer to explicit experiences of war.

Sergio Fabbrini

#13. Things have to be beautifully made, even if they are full of fun, fantasy and futility

Karl Lagerfeld

#14. I've been writing songs since I was, like, five and I've been singing since, like, I can't remember.

Taylor Momsen