Marseilles Quotes

#1. Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a cult food. Spain has paella and a number of others. Italy has so many, its cuisine is practically defined by them.

Nathan Myhrvold

#2. At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and not the least headache in the morning, I give you my word; on the contrary, you only wake with a sweet refreshing thirst for claret and water.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#3. We have a saying in Marseilles: a man in no hurry gets nowhere fast. I have been in no hurry for eight years.

Gregory David Roberts

#4. What a morning," Louis would say as they walked the rocky, dry hills above their rented chateau just outside Marseilles. "I want to take this day, fold it up, and put it in my pocket so I can have it again and again.

Nancy Horan

#5. In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.

Mark Twain

#6. Dantes examined the various articles shown to him with the same attention that he had bestowed on the curiosities and strange tools exhibited in the shops at Marseilles as the works of the savages in the South Seas from whence they had been brought by the different trading vessels.

Alexandre Dumas

#7. Dorcas, you already reek like a Marseilles cat house; don't wheedle Mike for more stinkum.

Robert A. Heinlein

#8. And did the biblical Lazarus have a mother? What did she do when he was resurrected? Did he bid her good-bye before he returned to his undeath? Was he the same son to her undead as he was alive? I read that he sailed to Marseilles with his sisters afterward, where he may or may not have died again.

Aleksandar Hemon

#9. If I owned Marseilles and Hell, I'd rent out Marseilles and live in Hell.

John McCarthy

#10. I am working with the enthusiasm of a man from Marseilles eating bouillabaisse, which shouldn't come as a surprise to you because I am busy painting huge sunflowers.

Vincent Van Gogh

#11. My piano has not yet arrived. How did you send it? By Marseilles or by Perpignan? I dream music but I cannot make any because here there are not any pianos ... in this respect this is a savage country.

Frederic Chopin

#12. somewhere among these rocks, popping in and out whenever he has a chance; and if I could only get another sight of him, I would

Edward S. Ellis

#13. Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

Rumi

#14. Business is a sprint until you find an opportunity, then it's the patience of a marathon runner.

Robert Herjavec

#15. I don't think comics necessarily think in literary terms. There is an element of developing your stage persona and your comedic voice, but I don't think comics see it like a character in a novel.

Ted Alexandro

#16. Aren't you at all curious about your past?" Rhys asked.
"No, my present is who I am. Your identity is whoever you choose to be, not who your parents were."
"But as a scientist you know that prior events influence it, and the future."
"In physics, yes. In people, no.

Jeffrey Perren

#17. I saw it his eyes. I felt it when he touched me.

Toni Gonzaga

#18. We take it for granted that life is hard and feel lucky to have whatever happiness we get. We do not look upon happiness as a birthright, nor do we expect it to be more than peace or contentment. Real joy, the state in which the Yequana spend much of their lives, is exceedingly rare among us.

Jean Liedloff

#19. If he knew anything of her habits, she was certain to be somewhere about. He was not looking for her. He was submitting himself to the possibility of encounter.

Patrick Hamilton

#20. Somewhat mollified by certain cups of very good coffee, he came out smiling and talking, in tolerably restored humor.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#21. When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of reckless hedonism that you should get out of your system in your youth.

Steve Coogan

#22. The male doesn't eat - it doesn't even have a mouth or an anus - so it does nothing but mate until death.

Amy Stewart