Rastignac Quotes

#1. Some socks are loners They can't live in pairs.

Wendy Cope

#2. Thank God, I am still an atheist.

Luis Bunuel

#3. How many of the original songs survive intact from the slave cabins? Probably not many in their original form. Time has transformed them like light in a prism. What we hope to present is a version of those spirituals, and they speak not just to black Americans, but to people worldwide.

Kathleen Battle

#4. Democrats are so spineless, so afraid to go against the tide ... but dissension is the greatest form of patriotism.

Jesse Ventura

#5. Hippies, hippies ... they want to save the world but all they do is smoke pot and play frisbee!

Trey Parker

#6. Like many men who play tennis, when I hit a ball into the net, I tend to look daggers at my racket, reproaching it for playing so badly when I myself have been trying so hard.

Craig Brown

#7. Did you ever notice that America is shaped like one big, giant toilet bowl?

Bret Hart

#8. History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.

Edna O'Brien

#9. Christianity is in its very essence a resurrection religion. The concept of resurrection lies at its heart. If you remove it, Christianity is destroyed.

John Stott

#10. The only path by which another person can upset you is through your own thought.

Joseph Murphy

#11. My brother and my dad always used to shave their hair, and I remember thinking, 'Why can't I do the same?'

Alice Dellal

#12. Men act badly sometimes without being much worse than others,

Joseph Conrad

#13. I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward.

Alber Elbaz

#14. I do believe that people hire immigrants, legal and illegal immigrants, to do certain jobs that maybe possibly could go to American citizens, and that's unfortunate. If they're here legally, I think it's OK. If they're here illegally, then they ought not be taking jobs from American citizens.

Jan Brewer

#15. It is scarcely exaggeration to say that if one is not a little mad about Balzac at twenty, one will never live; and if at forty one can still take Rastignac and Lucien de Rubempre at Balzac's own estimate, one has lived in vain.

Willa Cather

#16. Don't make excuses for why you're not doing what you have already deemed critical to your success.

Lorii Myers