Milieux 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. Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars, molecules, microscopic entities all come in communities. The singular cannot in reality exist.

Paula Gunn Allen

#3. A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.

A. J. Jacobs

#4. Photography is, and has been since its conception, a fabulously broad church. Contemporary practice demonstrates that the medium can be a prompt, a process, a vehicle, a collective pursuit, and not just the physical end product of solitary artists' endeavors.

Charlotte Cotton

#5. The Thin Man was a good break, because it was highly popular. I played a gigolo in it.

Cesar Romero

#6. I find it interesting when I look back at songs and it's what I've been thinking and feeling for the past two years. There's some sexual stuff in this record and I'm sometimes like, "Is that too far?" There's a confidence in it. It's over-sharing, but in a really therapeutic way.

Elena Tonra

#7. Lifestyles are routined practices, the routines incorporated into habits of dress, eating, modes of acting and favoured milieux for encountering others; but the routines followed are reflexively open to change in the light of the mobile nature of self-identity.

Anthony Giddens

#8. That was her last rational thought. She gave herself up to Cam completely, feasting on her. She couldn't get enough of her.

Jo Victor

#9. When you focus on what you have, your ABUNDANCE increases. I started with my breath. Noticing being alive is a good start!

Oprah Winfrey

#10. This, in a nutshell, is what "self-improvement" is really about: prioritizing better values, choosing better things to give a fuck about. Because when you give better fucks, you get better problems. And when you get better problems,

Mark Manson

#11. Keeing busy is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.

Joyce Carol Oates

#12. Will isn't my little bastard assistant. Will is Pellinore Warthrop's little bastard assistant.

Rick Yancey

#13. If you are strong enough as a couple, reality shows can be a good thing for the relationship.

Giuliana Rancic

#14. It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.

Robert Venturi

#15. Don't try to steer the river.

Deepak Chopra

#16. If skeptic can weakly force E, then he can force E.

Glenn Shafer

#17. Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does

Groucho Marx