Leila Slimani Quotes

#1. I know every line to 'The Little Rascals.'

Banks

#2. Salvation is not sin perfectly avoided, as the ego would prefer; but in fact, salvation is sin turned on its head and used in our favor.

Richard Rohr

#3. To me exposition always contains tenderness. While a dramatized scene is a way of proving and guaranteeing an emotional experience for the reader, exposition assumes that the reader is sophisticated and can see the universal.

Akhil Sharma

#4. Everyday is a compromise.

David Letterman

#5. I would visualize the best- and worst-case scenarios. Whether I get disqualified or my goggles fill up with water or I lose my goggles or I come in last, I'm ready for anything.

Michael Phelps

#6. In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.

Rachel Carson

#7. I'm not sure if I'll become Dr. Du Toit. I'm at the early stages of a long journey.

Elize Du Toit

#8. Honey and spice and all things dangerous are nice.

Jessica Shirvington

#9. When you see a bad romantic comedy, you see the script, the director, and the actors trying to create this warmth and this pathos and this feeling that you care about them. That cannot be manufactured - it's either there or it isn't.

Jeff Garlin

#10. When I think about books, I touch my shelf.

Unknown

#11. Just because Oprah said it, that doesn't make it true.

Hayley DiMarco

#12. proximity/intimacy is not the same thing as connectivity: it is at best an elaboration, at worst a slippage.

John Tomlinson