Normale Quotes

#1. These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.

Jacques Derrida

#2. In the past the French came to Germany less with the desire to understand it than with a zealous desire to interpret, to analyze it dispassionately something for which their training at the Ecole Normale Superieure or the Ecole des Hautes Etudes and the French language superbly equipped them to do.

Walter Abish

#3. If something good has lost its way into you, it will make its escape overnight. I know you.

Franz Kafka

#4. Well, there are three different processes of making a film, of course. They're sort of re-written three times. You write it to start with, and then you shoot it and you re-write it while shooting and you sort of re-write it as you edit.

Stephen Daldry

#5. People often say to me, "How come you don't want to be CEO of a company?" And I tell them, "I don't want to." I know I can do it, but I don't enjoy it. Why does that have to be the definition of success?

Charlene Li

#6. Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

Alexander Pope

#7. People like to think the younger generation's job is to steer the world to hell. But it's never true, is it? They're hopeful and good - and that's how it should be.

Elizabeth Strout

#8. I wish
our cowboy could be persuaded
to buy a horse,

that I could be invisible
until I can talk back

Thanhha Lai