Longues Heguy Quotes

#1. At the emergence of the modern novel with Rabelais and Cervantes, all kinds of things were possible in a long-form prose work. Within a couple of hundred years, most of those possibilities were abandoned in favor of a text that efficiently transmitted sentiments.

Teju Cole

#2. John Kerry can be absolutely ruthless. I would not want to be on his enemies list when he's ready to go after you.

Douglas Brinkley

#3. I blinked deliberately, expecting my eyelids to act like lumberjacks. But the trees would not fall.

Yann Martel

#4. Negotation is a point of interection of common interest.

Sukant Ratnakar

#5. After he saw what happened to Saddam Hussein, he ( Gaddafi ) did not want to be Saddam Hussein. He gave up his nuclear program.

Donald Rumsfeld

#6. Unhappiness loves company. Unhappiness can't stand silence - especially not the uneasy silence that settles in when it is all alone.

Herman Koch

#7. Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#8. I think more important than law is the hearts of people.

Louis Gossett Jr.

#9. I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour - that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like 'Three Men in a Boat.'

Terry Pratchett

#10. One of the joys about acting is researching.

William Sanderson

#11. Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

Robert Altman

#12. Bless you, prison, for having been in my life!

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#13. These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.

Jack Vance