Quotes About Carcassonne

#1. The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags.

Henry Miller

#2. Salamander: Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of which we have an account having been seen in Carcassonne by the Abbe Belloc, who exorcised it with a bucket of holy water.

Ambrose Bierce

#3. Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a cult food. Spain has paella and a number of others. Italy has so many, its cuisine is practically defined by them.

Nathan Myhrvold

#4. Start a business plan for yourself, not for anyone else.

Alexa Von Tobel

#5. I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot of Japanese friends and being there over the years.

Janis Ian

#6. We sometimes think of being good at mathematics as an innate ability. You either have "it" or you don't. But to Schoenfeld, it's not so much ability as attitude. You master mathematics if you are willing to try.

Malcolm Gladwell

#7. I have a strange career. I know it because people come up to me, like colleagues, and say, 'Chris, you have a strange career.'

Chris Adami

#8. The greatest joy of being a teacher, Mr.Karasuma is when a student provides a clear answer to a question you had your doubts about.

Yusei Matsui

#9. Please forgive my appearance. I am lately come from setting a house on fire.

Clare Boylan

#10. The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from the burden of thought; and, indifferent to aught else, care nothing for praise or censure, failure or success.

W. Somerset Maugham

#11. No; he could be ruined again and again by hope, but he would never be capable of belief.

Michael Chabon

#12. My training is documented on film.

Brad Pitt

#13. Laughter is easier, minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#14. The most efficient labor-saving device is still money.

Franklin P. Jones

#15. I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#16. There is one voyage, the first, the last, the only one.

Thomas Wolfe

#17. The lord whose is the oracle at Delphoi neither utters nor hides his meaning, but shows it by a sign.
The Sibyl, with raving lips uttering things mirthless, unbedizened, and unperfumed, reaches over a thousand years with her voice, thanks to the god in her.

Heraclitus