Milieux De Memoire Quotes

#1. Lieux de memoire ... 'exist because there are no longer any milieux de memoire, settings in which memory is a real part of everyday experience.' And what are lieux de memoire? [They] are ... vestiges ... the rituals of a ritual-less society.

Tony Judt

#2. Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.

Abraham Maslow

#3. Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#4. The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.

Joseph Campbell

#5. Cause there's nothing, there's nothing you can teach me
That I can't learn from Mr. Hathaway.

Amy Winehouse

#6. I will make myself sick on films, just because you want everything to be right. I can't sleep if something hasn't been done or is out of place.

Sandra Bullock

#7. Beware the inveterate punster, Doyle, it's a sure sign of brewing mental disturbance.

Mark Frost

#8. My lady, don't you think you might be over-extending yourself? You've decided to confront the gyorn, liberate the court women from masculine oppression, save Arelon's economy, and feed Elantris. Perhaps you should just let this man's subterfuge go unexplored.

Brandon Sanderson

#9. Writing is so hard. Why would you be a writer if you weren't really good at it? If you could be anything else, why would you be a writer?

Fran Lebowitz

#10. So I know she forgives me, just as I forgive her. Thomas Edison's last words were: 'It very beautiful over there.' I do not know where there is, bit I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it is beautiful.

John Green