Quotes About Enfant

#1. For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.

John Crowe Ransom

#2. How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a city that goes around in circles!

John Mason Brown

#3. The poet must be free to love or hate as the spirit moves him, free to change, free to be a chameleon, free to be an enfant terrible. He must above all never worry about this effect on other people.

May Sarton

#4. The Smile of a Child enlarge the universe (D'un enfant le sourire - Agrandit l'univers)

Charles De Leusse

#5. But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
[Fr., Mais un pripon d'enfant (cet age est sans pitie).

Jean De La Fontaine

#6. I'm supposed to be the rebellious one, l'enfant terrible.

Anne Rice

#7. Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.

Xavier Dolan

#8. I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific big-wigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them.

Samuel Butler

#9. For he says one must get money however one can, even by base means.

Anonymous

#10. No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.

Stephen Hawking

#11. Both pieces are similar in one way:what one could believe, one doubts. Nicoise because one depends upon the moral sense of the filmmaker, The Navidson Record because one depends upon the moral sense of the world.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#12. Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion during which the matter passes from an indefinite incoherent homogeneity to a definite coherent heterogeneity, and during which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.

Herbert Spencer

#13. My father belonged to a commune, and the food was ghastly. My idea of food hell is the salad cream they'd pour all over bits of lettuce, cucumber and tomato. It was just disgusting.

Marianne Faithfull

#14. Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.

Dan Millman

#15. Children are not things to be molded, But are people to be unfolded. - Jess Lair The Absorbent Mind and Sensitive Periods from Birth to Six Months

Anonymous

#16. I'm giving my whole life to breaking the butterfly of a John Rockefeller upon the wheel of my ponderous articles,

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#17. Allow the light to fall across you. Shadow or sunlight. Allow it to define your shape. In its way. Another day it may be different. It surely will be. Are we ever the same? Is the light? And the way a form presses into the grass?

Jay Woodman