Jacques Roubaud Quotes

#1. Happiness is the most tired word in any language.

Erol Ozan

#2. Hold my hands; kiss my forehead, hug me and look in my eyes; maybe today is the last day you can do this.

M.F. Moonzajer

#3. Poetry is the memory of language

Jacques Roubaud

#4. In creation myths, a god shapes mud or clay into living form, much like a potter throws a pot or a sculptor reveals the statue within a block of marble. But a writer has to create his own clay or stone before he can begin shaping life from it.

Stuart Dybek

#5. Of the many million pairs of grieving parents, we will never know how many felt that their sons had died for something noble, and how many felt what one British couple expressed in the epitaph they placed on their son's tombstone at Gallipoli: 'What harm did he do Thee, O Lord?

Adam Hochschild

#6. And of the fact that every vision of the past is a vision of the blind

Jacques Roubaud

#7. What makes aerobic exercise so powerful is that it's our evolutionary method of generating that spark. It lights a fire on every level of your brain, from stoking up the neurons' metabolic furnaces to forging the very structures that transmit information from one synapse to the next.

John J. Ratey

#8. The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.

John Vianney

#9. I, Scarlet Benoit, do hereby claim you, Ze'ev Kesley, as my husband and my Alpha. Forevermore, you will be my mate, my star, my beginning of everything. You are the one. You have always been, and you will always be, the only one. Wolf

Marissa Meyer

#10. I don't know too many people who, when the TV announcer says, 'Viewer discretion is advised', then turn the TV off. Those are code words for, 'Turn the sound up; this is gonna be really good.'

Dan Gilroy

#11. Mimes! You can't tell me the devil doesn't have anything to do with mimes!-Paula, Holy Smokes

Katie MacAlister

#12. A community is a butcher and a doctor, a minister, a town troublemaker. A "community" is not a bunch of people united by some grievance. That's just self-righteousness
incredibly dangerous and antidemocratic.

Fran Lebowitz

#13. Let the dogs of the empire bark, that's their job; ours is to battle to achieve the true liberation of our people.

Hugo Chavez

#14. Some of the best things that have happened in my stories have happened seemingly of their own accord. The writer becomes a listener, just writing things down as they come.

Will Hobbs

#15. When they confronted her like this, she felt like a delicate freaking time bomb just waiting for a time and a place to explode.

Missy Lyons

#16. Who will wake up at the end of my dream?

Jacques Roubaud