Quotes About Vigan

#1. So to conduct one's life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.

Henrik Ibsen

#2. My Dad says that we're the meanest to the ones we love because we know they'll still love us.

Delphine De Vigan

#3. But sometimes the night reveals the only truth that time passes and things will never be seen the same again.

Delphine De Vigan

#4. And when he catches me looking at him, he gives me this incredibly sweet, calm smile, and I think that we've got our lives ahead of us, our whole lives.

Delphine De Vigan

#5. I often regret the fact that you can't rub out words in mid-air like you can on paper, that there isn't a special pen that you can wave in front of you to remove the clumsy words before anyone can hear them.

Delphine De Vigan

#6. I thought that helping someone meant sharing everything, even the things you can't understand, even the darkest stuff.

Delphine De Vigan

#7. If you consider that a single straight line can be drawn between any two points, one day I'm going to draw a line from him to me or me to him.

Delphine De Vigan

#8. My own style depends on my location. Hippie-chic in Costa Rica, tailored and clean in N.Y.C., and great jeans and comfy tops with fun sneakers in L.A.

Perrey Reeves

#9. You can learn to find unknowns in equations, draw equidistant lines and demonstrate theorems, but in real life there's nothing to position, calculate, or guess.

Delphine De Vigan

#10. I don't go after him. He's a funny sort of boy. I've known that from the start. Not just because he seems angry and contemptuous or the way he walks like a tough guy. Because of his smile - it's a child's smile.

Delphine De Vigan

#11. Those moments aren't ours any more. They're shut up in a box, buried at the back of a cupboard, out of reach. They're frozen like on a postcard or a calendar. The colours will end up disappearing, fading. They're forbidden to our memories and our words.

Delphine De Vigan

#12. That's the problem - our lives have stopped and the world keeps going round.

Delphine De Vigan

#13. Later, the body will assimilate the fear; it will enter the bloodstream, be diluted and become a constituent part of how it functions.

Delphine De Vigan

#14. In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.

Chris Patten

#15. No prince, no success filled her dreams: only time spread out before her to spend as she chose, a time of contemplation which offered her refuge.

Delphine De Vigan

#16. And i'm thinking, aren't i supposed to be the one who's freaking out here? tiny is going to be the first b-b-b- (i can't do it) boy-f-f-f (c'mon, will) boyf-boyf (here we go) boyfriend of mine that she's ever met.

David Levithan

#17. I thought there was nothing more worthwile or more respectable than directing the traffic, going from red to green and green to red in order to protect people.

Delphine De Vigan

#18. Suddenly I'm happy there in the fuzziness of sleep, and maybe this is what happiness is - not a dream or a promise - just living for the moment.

Delphine De Vigan

#19. I wanted Sundays in wintry colours, the smell of soup drifting from the kitchen. I wanted our lives to be like other people's. I wanted everyone to have their place at the table, their time for the bathroom, their part in the domestic routine, for there be nothing to do by let time drift by.

Delphine De Vigan

#20. I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go.

Henry Rollins

#21. Excellence happens when you try each day to both do and be, a little better than you were yesterday!

Pat Riley

#22. Some secrets are like fossils and the stone has become too heavy to turn over.

Delphine De Vigan

#23. But I can't manage to grow up and change shape. I'm still tiny, and staying that way, perhaps because I know the secret that everyone pretends to be unaware of, perhaps because I know that deep down we're all tiny.

Delphine De Vigan