Louisiana Creole Quotes

#1. If you're a leading actor you don't work with another actor. You work with a lady.

Michael Caine

#2. My friend Markus Zusak wrote a story from the point of view of death, 'The Book Thief.' I thought that's a great idea, where your omniscient narrator is death. I'm glad he had that idea because I wouldn't have been able to work so well with it.

Shaun Tan

#3. He referred to the human brain as a clown car parked between our ears. Open the doors and the clowns pile out.

Karen Joy Fowler

#4. Faith for Moltmann, we may recall, is not something we must have or exercise in order to be saved. It is not the transition from damnation to salvation; it is the way in which we experience the vital, eschatological "turning point" of history.

Nicholas Ansell

#5. Pushed times make a monkey chew pepper.~ Creole proverb. (challenging times inspire unique actions)

Myra Jolivet

#6. Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.

Baron De Montesquieu

#7. Strange and ironic, it will end the same way.

Dante Alighieri

#8. HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the beginning of the last century and were distinguished for the bitterness of their internal controversies and dissensions.

Ambrose Bierce

#9. I didn't give you this life, honey. They took to you because of who you are. You gave yourself this life.

David Isay

#10. I will not use people's lives as bargaining chips.

Andrea Leadsom

#11. I'd only marry for love."
"Easy to say when you're not illegal.

Patricia Engel

#12. This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity.

Antoine Lavoisier

#13. In the foreign country, we call the past, crucifixion was a common punishment. It was invented by the Persians, carried back to Europe by Alexander the Great, and widely used in Mediterranean empires.

Steven Pinker

#14. Why should men arrogate to themselves the right to regulate female purity?

Mahatma Gandhi