Oulipo Exercises Quotes

#1. Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone.

Powell Clayton

#2. Know the enemy, know yourself; your victory will never be endangered. Know the ground, know the weather; your victory will then be total.

Sun Tzu

#3. I know definitive points in my life and in relationships because of my songs. I write my music so that I'll never be bored of it.

Amy Winehouse

#4. Nothing is more false and more indiscreet than always to want to choose what mortifies us in everything. By this rule a person would soon ruin his health, his business, his reputation, his relations with his relatives and friends, in fact every good work which Providence gives him.

Francois Fenelon

#5. Fear can paralyze us and keep us from believing God and stepping out in faith. The devil loves a fearful Christian!

Billy Graham

#6. My parents have basically just taught me the rules of the stage and everything since I was eight.

Haley Reinhart

#7. It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.

Barbara Amiel

#8. Well excuse me! How was I supposed to know that a pink baseball cap with a dildo glued on top isn't a "hard hat"?

Jarod Kintz

#9. Everyone wants a revolution. No one wants to do the dishes." I

Tish Harrison Warren

#10. Sometimes
the beauty of my people
is
so
thick and intricate.
i spend days
trying
to undo my eyes
so
i can sleep.

Nayyirah Waheed

#11. I'm very interested in my new kitchen equipment shop. I've started it with two friends.

Elizabeth David

#12. Chess has given me a lot more than I could ask for. I have been able to feel special, travel the world and do what I truly enjoy. Moreover, chess players love being their own boss and hate having to wake up early!

Viswanathan Anand

#13. Something of the hermit's temper is an essential element in many forms of excellence, since it enables men to resist the lure of popularity, to pursue important work in spite of general indifference or hostility, and arrive at opinions which are opposed to prevalent errors.

Bertrand Russell