Quotes About Flaneur

#1. The French have the perfect word for it: 'flaneur'. It means to stroll around aimlessly but enjoyably, observing life and your surroundings. Baudelaire defined a flaneur as 'a person who walks the city in order to experience it'.

Gemma Burgess

#2. I love the 19th-century idea of the flaneur, the poet wandering through the streets.

Tom Hodgkinson

#3. I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. Truth is not by nature free-nor error servile-its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.

Michel Foucault

#5. To teach our children is a personal duty; we cannot delegate it to Sunday School Teachers, or other friendly aids, these can assist us, but cannot deliver us from the sacred obligation;

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#6. Only supreme in misery!

John Milton

#7. Everybody was calling. I think everybody called every player in the league. Thats history right there.

Dwyane Wade

#8. Things sure have changed. FDR tried to calm us: "Nothing to fear but fear itself." Now politicians encourage the jitters. Panic is the new patriotism. "Today's Threat Level: Duck!

Tim Dorsey

#9. The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#10. The first observation of cancer cells in the smear of the uterine cervix gave me one of the greatest thrills I ever experienced during my scientific career.

Georgios Papanikolaou

#11. You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.

Yogi Berra

#12. The truth has never been told about women in history: that everywhere man has gone woman has gone too, and what he has done she has done also. Women are ignorant of their own past and ignorant of their own importance in that past.

Pearl S. Buck