Quais Quotes

#1. Bruges was his dead wife. And his dead wife was Bruges. The two were untied in a like destiny. It was Bruges-la-Morte, the dead town entombed in its stone quais, with the arteries of its canals cold once the great pulse of the sea had ceased beating in them.

Georges Rodenbach

#2. The hungry men were seen, followed by their valets, roaming the quais and guards' quarters; gleaning from their outside friends all the dinners they could find; for, according to Aramis, in prosperity one should sow meals right and left, in order to harvest some in adversity.

Alexandre Dumas

#3. I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.

Ernest Hemingway,

#4. He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

Rabindranath Tagore

#5. Nora said: 'I love you, Nicky, because you smell nice and know such fascinating people.

Dashiell Hammett

#6. The feminine section of the proletarian army is of particularly great significance... the success of a revolution depends on the extent to which women take part in it.

Vladimir Lenin

#7. Sometimes the only action you can take leads to more trouble. (Honey)

Patricia Briggs

#8. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. Thus some scientists care for truth; and their truth is pitiless.

G.K. Chesterton

#9. I think difficult characters are very rewarding to do. They often have facets to them and this and that.

Ben Mendelsohn

#10. I would love to do comedy. I think I'm funny and that comedy is my strong suit, at least in real life. I have yet to prove myself in the movies, but I'd love to get the opportunity to do that.

Evan Peters

#11. The irony of love is that it guarantees some degree of anger, fear and criticism.

Harold H. Bloomfield

#12. Success is uncommon, not to be found by the common man. I'm looking for uncommon people.

Cal Stoll

#13. Perhaps, if prematurely we dismiss ourselves from this world, all may even have to be suffered through again - the premature birth may not contribute to the production of another being, which must be begun again from the beginning.

Florence Nightingale