Quotes About Contraire

#1. Young would-be novelists and poets believe that art is eternal. Au contraire: we are in the business of ephemera, the era of floating islands of trash, and most of the things we feel deeply and inscribe on the page will disappear.

Julie Schumacher

#2. People think that if you are enlightened you are not in touch with the pulse of the physical. Au contraire! The higher you go, the deeper you become, and the more conscious you are of the physical and the sensorial.

Frederick Lenz

#3. The opposite of what is noised about concerning men and things is often the truth.
[Fr., Le contraire des bruits qui courent des affaires ou des personnes est souvent la verite.]

Jean De La Bruyere

#4. Irene gasped. "Have you taken leave of your senses, Stuart?" she hissed. "Have you?"
Stuart closed his eyes.
"No," he said. "Au contraire." It was strong language for the Edinburgh New Town, but he had to say it.
"Don't au contraire me," said Irene.
But it was too late. He had.

Alexander McCall Smith

#5. Au contraire..."
"What?" Constance demanded.
Curtain blinked.
~ The Perilous Journey

Trenton Lee Stewart

#6. When you ask someone how they are doing, do you really mean it? When you answer someone back how you are doing, are you really telling the truth?

Brady Quinn

#7. Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.

Oscar Wilde

#8. Death must be got through as life had been, just somehow.

Dorothy Richardson

#9. What he values is a task that, demanding of him all he has and is, absorbs and so releases him entirely.

Nan Shepherd

#10. 'Rubberband' is a lot of things, but it's not a flashy record.

Charlie Worsham

#11. I liked the idea of adopting a dog that was beyond the puppy stage, a dog with an unknown span of life under his belt. It seemed only fair; he didn't know what he was getting into with me either.

Meg Donohue

#12. If we're going to be friends let's get one thing straight right now. I hate snoops.

Holly Golightly

#13. Welcome," said Hagrid, "to Diagon Alley.

J.K. Rowling

#14. Poor Kate," said Constance, "she's lost her marbles.

Trenton Lee Stewart

#15. That hallmark image of cupid as a fat cherub with arrows? I think the real cupid is some kind of psycho juvie with a taser.

Lesley Livingston

#16. I don't have a deep link with England like, say, Jonathan Coe or Hanif Kureishi might demonstrate. For me, it is like a mythical place.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#17. When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.

Natalie Du Toit

#18. Cheer up! The worst effects of what we're doing won't be felt until after we're all dead

Ashleigh Brilliant

#19. What you see is what you get. My God, I don't have the time nor the energy to live up to some persona.

Marc Anthony

#20. I think that my IQ level grew as a player. I think that I [run] the game a little bit better. I'm waiting for the game to come to me, and I'm picking and choosing my spots instead of just going out there and just doing whatever because I don't have to do that with this team.

Derrick Rose

#21. Could something that looked so wrong on the outside turn out to be undeniably right? My

Jodi Picoult

#22. Oh, here's a clever one. Do you remember this question from the first test? It reads, 'What's wrong with this statement?' And do you know what Constance wrote in reply? She wrote, 'What's wrong with you?

Trenton Lee Stewart