Mais Oui Ennui Quotes

#1. World military spending has now risen to over $1.2 trillion. This incredible sum represents 2.5 per cent of GDP (global gross domestic product). Even if 1 per cent of it were redirected towards development, the world would be much closer to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

Ban Ki-moon

#2. Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.

Elizabeth Edwards

#3. At the beginning of every semester, I ask my graduate students whether there is something I should read that will help me understand their work.

Alice McDermott

#4. When a novelist or screenwriter is looking for a subject, the element he's seeking is conflict. Conflict makes drama. Conflict produces great characters and memorable scenes. So war is a natural topic.

Steven Pressfield

#5. Because here's what guys don't do if they can't live without you: They don't break up with you.

Greg Behrendt

#6. I am so satiated with the great number of detestable books with which we are inundated that I am reduced to punting at faro.

Voltaire

#7. Books are my friends, my companion. They make me laugh and cry and find the meaning of life

Christopher Paolini