Robert Briffault Quotes

#1. For a male and female to live continuously together is biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition.

Robert Briffault

#2. The female, not the male, determines all the conditions of the animal family. Where the female can derive no benefit from association with the male, no such association takes place.

Robert Briffault

#3. All my way through college, I worked my way as a window dresser for Lord & Taylor, so I always liked fashion. I always loved fashion and I love that we can do it and not take it seriously.

Joan Rivers

#4. The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment ... when he is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.

Robert Briffault

#5. The horrible truth is we are linear beings; we can't multitask, and we shouldn't keep interrupting important connections to each other with the latest message coming in.

Douglas Rushkoff

#6. Mick had heard Portia say that
before, but she had thought it was a
tale. How could a colored man be a
doctor?

Carson McCullers

#7. Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

W. Clement Stone

#8. I think a lot of things are at play when children enjoy a grisly old fairytale. I don't think many children take it literally, or rather it's quite clear to them that it's only a story, only make believe.

Robert Paul Weston

#9. No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution.

Robert Briffault

#10. a synonym for 'insane' is 'bananas

Brandon Scott Gorrell

#11. Unspoken feelings are unforgettable.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#12. The effects of infantile instruction are, like those of syphilis, never completely cured.

Robert Briffault

#13. The Renaissance of Europe did not take place in the 15th century. Rather it began when Europe learned from the culture of the Arabs. The cradle of European awakening is not Italy. It is the Muslim Spain.

Robert Briffault

#14. I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see - you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location.

Bob Balaban

#15. Absolutism is a guarantee of objectionable morals in the same way that absolutism in government is a guarantee of objectionable government.

Robert Briffault

#16. The old fellow who was cadging drinks from me the other night at the Cafe Royal told me he had known Julian Bern's people in the old days at Rome.

Robert Briffault

#17. I try to think about items that can be worn in different ways so they can be worn more than once.

Joseph Altuzarra

#18. Live your life so great that even the clouds will cry when you are gone!

Timothy Pina

#19. There's a spirit to the western people, that is unique in the world.

Nikolas Schreck

#20. I turned you into a stranger in order to forget you and now I'm the stranger.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#21. Fishtale River Guides are personable and very knowledgeable. I like a guide who'll talk to me and explain what's going on. They work hard to help me catch my fish. I fish with them at least twice a year.

Chuck Austen