Marigny Quotes

#1. A sharp character - no youth as I feared - a Faubourg Marigny type, Mediterranean, big-nosed, lumpy-jawed, a single stitched-in wrinkle over his eyebrows from just above which there springs up a great pompadour of wiry bronze hair. His face aches with it. He has no use for me at all.

Walker Percy

#2. I'm the greatest fighter in the entire world, how can I be afraid? I love people and people love me.

Muhammad Ali

#3. I'd see child actors and I'd get so jealous, because they're just completely wide open.

Joaquin Phoenix

#4. When people communicate deceit, it's called politics. When people communicate honesty, it's called art.

Gerard De Marigny

#5. Of all the hardships and deprivations a people can suffer, I am not sure if the deprivations of art and culture are not the most devastating. As meat and rice are food for the body, art and culture are food for the soul. Starve the body and the person dies; starve the soul and the spirit dies.

Gerard De Marigny

#6. The greatest artists express their inner self; an artist paints her rage; a writer pens his fear; a dancer expresses her sadness through movement; and a musician's loneliness echoes in his performance.

Gerard De Marigny

#7. How did the Farm Bill achieve overwhelming support from Congress in the face of such widespread calls for reform?...In exchange for leaving support for the large commodity crop farmers in place, House and Senate negotiators packaged support for nearly everyone else into the bill.

Pietra Rivoli

#8. Your friend will pay deeply for what he's done here tonight," Chance snarled once he wiped off most of the blood. "You can tell him to run as far and as fast as he can, I'll get him. Just let him know that once this is all over, it's just gonna be you and me and a world full of corpses.

Kayla Krantz

#9. Ideas are like the flint stone of wondrous works. You scratch at them until a spark flies ... then the world catches fire.

Gerard De Marigny

#10. God, Himself, wrote the 10 into stone with his own finger. He told the epic of mankind, our origins and our future, in a book. For me, there is no more noble a cause and no more honorable a vocation than to say, like Him, I am a writer.

Gerard De Marigny

#11. Feelings are your guide. Trust your feelings and learn to express them, and do not blame anyone for how you feel. Be yourself, observe yourself. Look to understand any crisis you have been in or will be in.

Barbara Marciniak

#12. I told a doctor once, Doc, if you want to know what's inside of me, put down the x-ray and pick up my novel!

Gerard De Marigny

#13. There's a difference between the 'art' of writing and the 'craft' of writing. Art is subjective, its beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder, but craft is objective. There is a right way and a wrong way to craft.

Gerard De Marigny

#14. A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved.

Gerard De Marigny

#15. I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.

Pedro Almodovar

#16. Goals are your destinations in life; objectives are the stops along the way.

Gerard De Marigny

#17. Looking at this house made me crushingly aware that most of my life I'd lived behind the shadow of who my father wished me to be. And all I'd ever longed for was to stand in the sunshine of being loved for who I was.

Mia Sheridan

#18. The soul of an artist cannot be muted indefinitely. It must either be expressed or it will consume the host.

Gerard De Marigny

#19. I have known John McCain personally since 1982. I wrote a well-received speech for him.

Christopher Buckley

#20. Success can be defined in many ways but failure in only one ... quitting!

Gerard De Marigny

#21. To me, empathy and compassion are among the bravest of emotions ... and faith, the bravest of convictions.

Gerard De Marigny

#22. Your thoughts are like the seeds you plant in your garden. Your beliefs are like the soil in which you plant these seeds.

Louise Hay

#23. Of all the most devastating sounds in the universe, silence is the most powerful.

Gerard De Marigny

#24. As important as color is to a painting, or wings to a bird. Music injects vibrancy to film and makes it soar!

Gerard De Marigny

#25. Without thinking, [Will] spoke.
'Halt? Are you awake?'
'No.' The ill humor in the one-word reply was unmistakable.
'Oh. Sorry.'
'Shut up.'
He pondered whether to apologize again and decided this would go against the instruction to shut up, so remained silent.

John Flanagan

#26. There's something to be said about drinking a carafe of wine by yourself ... I just can't remember at the moment what it is! (said after drinking a carafe of wine by himself)

Gerard De Marigny

#27. The Christian life is to live all of your life in the presence of God.

R.C. Sproul

#28. I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet.

Mahatma Gandhi

#29. Bravery is not the trait of a fearless person, lest the reckless actions of a fool be considered brave. Bravery is the quality that allows us to overcome our fears and succeed.

Gerard De Marigny