Jardin Des Plantes Quotes

#1. There was a time when I thought a great deal about the axolotls. I went to see them in the aquarium at the Jardin des Plantes and stayed for hours watching them, observing their immobility, their faint movements. Now I am an axolotl.

Julio Cortazar

#2. Enlightenment is the unfolding of the divinity within.

Michael Sharp

#3. I'm not going to talk about Picasso. I have done my duty to those memories. I have had a great career as an artist myself, you know. I'm not here just because I've spent time with Picasso.

Francoise Gilot

#4. The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.

Abraham Lincoln

#5. None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.

Saint Augustine

#6. He had hoped to spot the flickering shadow of a murderer as he turned the file's pages, but instead it was the ghost of Lula herself who emerged, gazing up at him, as victims of violent crimes sometimes did, through the detritus of their interrupted lives.

Robert Galbraith

#7. My own fashion sense has been influenced by 'We'll Take Manhattan.' It's gotten a little better.

Karen Gillan

#8. Occasionally, in times of worry, I've longed to be stylish, but on second thought I say no-just let me be myself-and express rough, yet true things with rough workmanship.

Vincent Van Gogh

#9. I may be the only golfer never to have broken a single putter, if you don't count the one I twisted into a loop and threw into a bush.

Thomas Boswell

#10. I'm a fan of genre in the abstract, but at best, perhaps all we can really say when we talk about genre is that we're talking about an umbrella that covers a kind of story with certain elements.

Greg Rucka

#11. Life throws punches. It's not about punching back ... It's about taking 'em, and still standing.

Vaughn Ripley