Les Indes Galantes Quotes

#1. My perfect day is to work incredibly well in the morning and write something wonderful, then take the dog for a walk and go for a swim in the ladies' ponds on Hampstead Heath or work in my allotment. Then I get tarted up in the evening and go out in London to dinner or the cinema.

Deborah Moggach

#2. There are a few things that even sarcasm can't protect you from.

Diana Peterfreund

#3. I don't mind America becoming a Third World country. The weather is better in the Third World than it is where I live in New Hampshire. And household help will be much cheaper.

P. J. O'Rourke

#4. The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it yourselves.

Jeffrey Sachs

#5. Bug, meanwhile, had learned at Marshtown that might made right, and he got older and paler, his head downcast like a nodding flower that expects itself to be cut at any moment.

William T. Vollmann

#6. By God!' he whispered, drawing his breath in sharply, 'it is all pure Rider Haggard and Conan Doyle.

John Buchan

#7. Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.

Herodotus

#8. There would be a lot more optimists if it weren't for the rise-and-shine requierement.

Robert Breault

#9. All I can say is I've been reading the lips of bleeped-out words, angry baseball players, and stoned-out rock stars on awards shows for years and it's been hilarious. Everyone is always asking me what the bleeped-out parts are saying.

Marlee Matlin

#10. What else mattered except being with Carol, anywhere, anyhow?

Patricia Highsmith

#11. The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more. This assumption is a folly.

H.L. Mencken