La Maison Quotes

#1. And sing along for a few bars before changing it again. By the time we reached the darkened facade of La Maison, I was starting to wonder whether there were any Snow White variants that included killing the Wicked Queen for being too annoying to be allowed to live.

Seanan McGuire

#2. He is a pale, long faced, unsmiling fellow who probably lives on a diet of organic bran and carrot juice. He heard Ballard open the proceedings against La Maison with a pained expression, and looked at me over his half-glasses as though I were a saucepan that hadn't been washed up properly.

John Mortimer

#3. Let's worship Divinity, but understand the divinity we worship is beyond our comprehension.

John Templeton

#4. The search for a way to eradicate this scourge ... is left to incidental dabbling and uncoordinated research. - The Washington Post, 1946

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#5. The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

Sigmund Freud

#6. The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.

Tom T. Hall

#7. As it is pleasant to see the sea from the land, so it is pleasant for him who has escaped from troubles to think of them.

Epictetus

#8. I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference.

John Sayles

#9. Sean," I forced a smile, but it might have looked a little scary. "When have I ever done anything stupid?"
"Perfect," he muttered.

Kristen Simmons

#10. I kind of romanticized what it was like to be a writer and director when I was in my early twenties. Working as a production assistant knocked that right out of me.

Bill Hader

#11. Since the majority of the oxygen we breathe comes from the ocean, not to mention much of the world's protein, it is not an exaggeration to say that when our oceans' health declines, our very survival is at risk.

Brian Skerry

#12. Second chances don't come cheap.

Chris Cole

#13. Une maison sans chat, c'est la vie sans soleil. (A house without a cat is like live without sunshine.) --
One of Julia Child's favorite sayings.

Therese Burson

#14. Whoever neglects doing good is inviting addiction to evil.

Thich Nhat Hanh