Rabelaisian Quotes

#1. Everyone understood [Charlie Hebdo], as people had understood for hundreds of years, knowing that Rabelaisian tradition of French satire, they knew how to read it. And they understood the kind of release from piety that it represented every week.

Scott Simon

#2. Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most loved manager, Casey Stengel, spoke gibberish. In this lazy sport, only the pitcher pours sweat. Then he takes three days off.

Thomas Boswell

#3. By seeing the way a joke worked in the horseplay of a printing shop two centuries ago, we may be able to recapture that missing element - laughter, sheer laughter, the thigh-slapping, rib-cracking Rabelaisian kind, rather than the Voltairian smirk with which we are familiar.

Robert Darnton

#4. The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is an ordination.

Marcel Duchamp

#5. They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

Thomas More

#6. It's a fantastic thing to take the risk of getting so close to your desire, expressing your obsession so absolutely.

Jeanne Moreau

#7. I think that a musician is like a doctor, he's supposed to heal people and make them feel better.

Steve Turre

#8. I'm learning a whole new thing: that sometimes, love isn't observable or noisy or tangible. That sometimes, love is anonymous. Sometimes, love is silent. Sometimes, love just stands there when you're calling it a cunt, biting its tongue and waiting.

Caitlin Moran

#9. The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.

Margaret Fuller

#10. I believe in you as well as I believe in us.

Sefryana Khairil

#11. It was impossible to explain to the healthy the logic of the sick, and he didn't have the energy to try.

Hanya Yanagihara

#12. Living the dream is simply a form of living out your passion, of making that passion gradually, through persistence and effort, a central part of your life.

Urijah Faber

#13. If we take the time to silence the chatter in our minds, it gives our heart the opportunity to awaken from its slumber. Peace of mind begins with peace in the heart.

Molly Friedenfeld