Mouret Quotes

#1. For a few moments, raising his arms desperately, the Reverend Mouret implored Heaven. His shoulder-blades cracked, with such fantastic force did he pray. But soon enough his arms fell to his sides, his hopes abashed. From heaven came one of those silences utterly void of hope known to the devout.

Emile Zola

#2. The odd thing about this form of communication is you're more likely to talk about nothing than something. But I just want to say that all this nothing has meant more to me than so many ... somethings. So, thanks.

Nora Ephron

#3. When you're younger, you have ideas and visions of what you're going to be like when you're older and what love is going to be like and who you're gonna be married to and all of these different things.

Danger Mouse

#4. And so blinded was she by those gleams of glory which the stars fling into the eyes of young lovers, that she saw perfection where none existed ... p146

Radclyffe Hall

#5. I had someone correct my grammar once on a blind date, and within the first 10 minutes the date was over. You just don't correct somebody's grammar. That's just not okay. I'm from Tennessee, so I probably say everything wrong. I might have said 'ain't,' or something like that.

Reese Witherspoon

#6. We are not to lead events, but to follow them.

Epictetus

#7. After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy.

Mason Cooley

#8. My mother sent me to dance and drama classes when I was young, and then I got a stage role in 'Set To Partners' when I was 12, followed by Benjamin Britten's 'Let's Make An Opera.'

Shirley Eaton

#9. The question is not, 'Do you have a problem?' The question is, 'Does the problem have you?'

Joel Osteen

#10. The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.

Francis Bacon

#11. Laughter - that is something very sacred especially for us Indians.

John Fire Lame Deer

#12. One judges an epoch as much by its Art as by its customs.

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

#13. The Pudding of Obligation. (Placed upon the Doily of Resentment.)

Theo Ellsworth

#14. Obama says he's bringing 10,000 troops home. The Republicans are calling it a failed jobs program.

Christopher Titus

#15. Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don't know certain things. Yet often, they know but just don't care. So the task of serious journalism isn't just to lay out truths. It is to make vital truths compelling to a big audience.

Alain De Botton