Limoges Quotes

#1. The first dog I ever had was called Prince. I called him after the Black Prince. You know, the fellow who ... '
'Massacred all the women and children in Limoges.'
'I don't remember that.'
'The history books gloss it over.

Graham Greene

#2. He, in his love songs, and his tales in prose,
was without peer
and if fools claim Limoges
produced a better, there are always those
who measure worth by popular acclaim,
ignoring principles of art and reason
to base their judgments on the author's name.

Dante Alighieri

#3. Either way, he figured a cup of coffee would hit the spot. For what is more versatile? As at home in tin as it is in Limoges, coffee can energize the industrious at dawn, calm the reflective at noon, or raise the spirits of the beleagured in the middle of the night.

Amor Towles

#4. My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart - I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade.

Tony Parsons

#5. Three gods, two Druids, and a selkie walk into a bar ...

Kevin Hearne

#6. In a clear brook
With joyful haste
The whimsical trout
Shot past me like an arrow
I play the line of the song, I play the leaps and plunges of the right hand of the piano, I am the trout, the angler, the brook, the observer.

Vikram Seth

#7. In spite of the extraordinary outpouring of totally and partially new products and new ways of doing things that we are witnessing today, by far the greatest flow of newness is not innovation at all. Rather, it is imitation.

Theodore Levitt

#8. One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.

Mary Ritter Beard

#9. There are a hundred ways a man can bleed to death. And he can be pulled from the rubble of bitterness, of despair, as well as the wreckage of the Phoenix. And which rescue is the more real? Nothing you could have done for me ... was more important than the restoration of my hope.

Connie Willis

#10. I didn't want to prejudge but based on the company he kept, the glistening of his suit, and the poser-like swagger, I somehow suspected that Shiny Suit was what the students today technically refer to as a douchebag.

Harlan Coben

#11. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; asbad and good.

Abraham Lincoln

#12. I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing.

David Mamet

#13. What is the difference between being an independent person
and being a person who is accepting of loneliness

Mira Gonzalez

#14. I, of course, wanted to do something with Drew Barrymore. Please. So we were reading scripts back and forth and then we found this script, Fever Pitch.

Jimmy Fallon

#15. I'm not going to let the government make a profit out of lending money for people to go to college. So we're going to really change this. I see it as an investment, not an expense, and I'm going to treat it that way.

Hillary Clinton

#16. The more we know our suffering, the more we will enjoy our happiness. And

A.G. Roemmers

#17. After 40, a man is responsible for his face.

George Orwell

#18. I cried out at the sudden visitation of pain, everyone in a silent church standing in a rustle of suits and dresses to bend back their longest fingernail.

Eric Sennevoight