Quotes About Picaresque

#1. The most important thing is presentation.

David Copperfield

#2. I think the periods of being unsuccessful have made me a better actor.

Peter Capaldi

#3. Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields

Bjarne Stroustrup

#4. Things like this don't happen all that often in one lifetime. This is the magnificent world of a picaresque novel. Just brace yourself and enjoy the smell of evil. We're shooting the rapids. And when we go over the falls, let's do it together in grand style!

Haruki Murakami

#5. Unfortunately, fur is still flying off the racks. It's a billion dollar industry.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

#6. I'd ban coincidences, if I were a dictator of fiction. Well, perhaps not entirely. Coincidences would be permitted in the picaresque; that's where they belong. Go on, take them: let

Julian Barnes

#7. Never underestimate your potential for Jannah

Boonaa Mohammed

#8. I don't know if I'll get a happy ending. But why worry about a happy ending? Why worry about any ending at all? I don't know where I'm going next, and for the first time in forever, I don't want to. I want my life to be picaresque. Fantastical. I want to say yes and.

Samantha Ellis

#9. Your love is the oil in my lamp of life. Your body the wick that burns casting a blanket of comfort over me as the darkness closes in ... I love you

Steven Strait

#10. It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked or bring down a storm of criticism on my head.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#11. Catholicism is more than a religion, it is a political power. Therefore I'm led to believe there will be no peace in Ireland until the Catholic Church is crushed

Oliver Cromwell

#12. A turning point in the public's perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'An Autobiography' of 1932, a picaresque narrative that captivated many who hadn't the slightest inkling of what architects actually did.

Martin Filler

#13. I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.

David Mamet

#14. Don't regret your past ... It has shaped you. Don't fear your future ... It is yours to shape.

Louise Hansen

#15. One of my favourite kinds of movie is the American picaresque, in which the characters make their way across the country, learning about life against the gorgeous backdrops of that vast land.

Steven Pinker

#16. Life is not dull. Be thankful for that.

Jo Bower

#17. Sometimes I imagine life itself as merely a long preparation and waiting, a long darkness of growth toward these adventures of the spirit, a picaresque novel, so to speak, in which the episodes are all inward.

May Sarton