Recherche Quotes

#1. Proust is a hero of mine. I read 'A la recherche' in one go, and I'm a very slow reader. It had an astonishing impact, reading it on my own and being my main company. I think Proust is the most intelligent person to ever have written a novel.

Edward St. Aubyn

#2. For me, wearing a tie is a pleasure, a recherche one but a pleasure nonetheless. You could say that I'm avoiding tie avoidance. My own gorgeous collection runs into hundreds and I buy them the way I buy books - I simply can't pass a shop. I have loved them since I could spend my own money on them.

Peter York

#3. There are times when born hollandaise heads, as well as nouveaux turbot freaks and recherche escargotphiles alike crave the saignet abundance of a New York steak.

Gael Greene

#4. A La Recherche du Temps Perdu is like a beautiful hand with long fingers reaching out to pluck a perfect fruit, without error,for the accurate eye knows well it is growing just there on the branch, while Ulysses is the fumbling of a horned hand in darkness after a doubted jewel.

Rebecca West

#5. I was happy that I was drafted, and then it was the Yankees and that just made it even better.

Nick Johnson

#6. Merrily, merrily, listen to me, Flitting and flying from tree to tree. Nothing fear I, by land or sea, For God in Heaven is watching me.

Maud Lindsay

#7. At the end of the day, you can't regret it if you were trying. At the end of the day I'm walking with a heart of a lion.

Kid Cudi

#8. Pork is not a vegetable.

Jordon Quattlebaum

#9. Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Marcel Proust

#10. There's always been a hip-hop element to my trousers.

Damon Albarn

#11. In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families.

Boyd K. Packer

#12. My life just got taken over by my cooking. If you don't have any discipline, which I don't, you can make 10 gallons of chocolate mousse, take a spoonful and another and another, and you won't realize you've eaten like five servings of it. It's just what you do.

Duff Goldman

#13. I so desperately wanted to be Mr. Somebody. Instead, I was the little brother, included to a point.

Charlie Sheen

#14. You know your chances with me always get worse, the more you talk. And Kelly finally shut up. For a block, anyway ...

Cara McKenna

#15. When I was 13, I started writing songs, and it fell into my lap all of a sudden. I wrote poems and journals, but that's when it switched for me to songwriting. That's when I wanted to do everything. It was like a fire all of a sudden. I started coming to Nashville and moved here when I was 15.

Kelsea Ballerini

#16. For girls, it raises your testosterone, so I try to have as much sex as possible before I fight.

Ronda Rousey

#17. There is no greater sorrow
Than to recall a happy time
When miserable.

Dante Alighieri

#18. Remember that you are young, beautiful, individual and unique and that is worth everything in this world.

Troian Bellisario

#19. It is something, I thought, when a king can put a courtesan to the blush.

Mary Renault

#20. Ben is ten and he's dead. But he's not gone. Not for me.

Victoria Schwab

#21. Blot out the moon,
Pull down the stars.
Love in the dark, for we're for the dark
So soon, so soon.

Jean Rhys