Pasquier Quotes

#1. A star dies in heaven every time you snatch away someone's dream.

Gloria Naylor

#2. Charity is an eternal debt and without limit.

Pasquier Quesnel

#3. Many books open with an author's assurance of order. One slipped into their waters with a silent paddle ... But novels commenced with hesitation or chaos. Readers were never fully in balance. A door a lock a weir opened and they rushed through, one hand holding a gunnel, the other a hat.

Michael Ondaatje

#4. Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.

Pasquier Quesnel

#5. See, I never wrote arrangements for the band for Judy Garland; I did strictly special material, special lyrics, put together all of her medleys.

Mel Torme

#6. We pass our life in deliberation, and we die upon it.

Pasquier Quesnel

#7. I was surprised by how much of it I was in [Tron: Legacy]. I thought the character was just going to register as a smaller figure because most of what I did was with a body double, and then I would do the stand-in with Jeff [Bridges] and he would be just wearing his regular clothes.

James Frain

#8. A just person knows how to secure his own reputation without blemishing another's by exposing his faults.

Pasquier Quesnel

#9. When I composed, I heard my music played by the orchestra within days of completion of the score. No master at a conservatory, no matter how revered, can teach as much by verbal criticism as can a cold and analytical hearing of one's own music being played.

Andre Previn

#10. Because modernism has conquered art, kitsch is the savior of talent and devotion.

Odd Nerdrum

#11. Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

Isaac Asimov

#12. Even so We find the sea of sorrow. Black as night The sullen surface meets our frightened gaze, As down we sink to darkness and despair ...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#13. Men are; more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction.

Pasquier Quesnel

#14. Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve in another.

Pasquier Quesnel

#15. There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.

Pasquier Quesnel

#16. The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#17. The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Pasquier Quesnel

#18. Care may acquire wealth, which, when acquired, care must guard and worry about.

Pasquier Quesnel

#19. No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.

John Archibald Wheeler

#20. Shift your attention, and your emotion shifts. Shift your emotion, and your attention shifts.

Frederick Dodson

#21. Life's just another blowjob. And just because I let you cum in my mouth, doesn't mean I'm going to swallow it! - excerpt from: freefalling

Darlenne Susan Girard

#22. Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.

Richard Steele

#23. Eating has always come up whenever and wherever. Maybe it's because we're girls, we have a lot of interest in eating.

Kim Hyo-yeon